Decentralization Reform for Unified Administration in Cambodia

Abstract

This paper concentrated on restructuring the institute’s governance framework at the Subnational administration (SNA) as unified administration structure is required for responsibility and work operation coordination. The function and resources are delegated from the central government to another level called Deconcentration and Transferred to the SNA called decentralization. The method applied in this research is the qualitative descriptive method. The data collection is carried out through observation and literature study. The analysis applies qualitative descriptive analysis. The findings show that the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has carried out democratic development under a decentralization policy which manages and controlling on organic law as administrative management of the commune/Sangkat (2001) and administrative management of the capital, province, municipalities, districts, and Khan(2008) for decentralization reform to unified administration at local administration for promoting efficiency in the delivery of public service to enhances accountability and involved with governance and administration, service delivery, fiscal decentralization, empowerment of local authorities, community participation, capacity building, equity, and inclusivity. The implementation of the organizational restructuring of RGC is in accordance with applicable laws and regulations of RGC to support the essence structure Administration Environment Factor for the organizational restructuring are regulations and human resources development and management, while the inhibiting factors are the issuance time of the regulation and the placement of human resources.