Samdech Krala Hom Sar Kheng Chairs a Meeting of NCDD 20th
Phnom Penh: Samdech Krala Hom Sar Kheng, Acting Prime Minister and Chairman of the National Committee for Democratic Development at the Sub-National Level (NCDD) On the morning of Thursday, March 15, 2022, which is December 8, 2022, he chaired the meeting of the NCDD. The 20th time at the office of the Ministry of Interior.
The meeting was attended by His Excellency Lok Chumteav, Deputy Prime Minister, Senior Minister, Minister, Secretary of State, Undersecretary of State, Deputy Director General, Chairman, Deputy Chairman, and senior officials of relevant ministries and institutions under the National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development. NCDD) many more.
Samdech Krala Hom Sar Kheng, Acting Prime Minister and Chairman of the NCDD He said that the 20th meeting of the NCDD Currently, in order to review the progress, challenges and discuss some important draft documents, including the five-year implementation plan, the first phase from 2021 to 2025, three draft laws: protected area law, forest law and fisheries law and other issues. Some more.
He emphasized to the meeting that the second phase of the National Program is a clear roadmap for the continuation and deepening of decentralization and deconcentration reforms in Cambodia through a review of the management system structure and division of functions. Clear authority, roles, duties and responsibilities between ministries and institutions at the national level, with sub-national administrations and among each sub-national administration.
The main purpose of the redistribution of functions, authority, roles, duties and responsibilities among these public institutions is to ensure the efficiency and quality of public services and local economic development in accordance with the principles of development. Democracy aims to contribute to the eradication of poverty and improve the quality of life of the people with an environment of justice and social equity.
Samdech Krala Hom added that during the implementation of the first national program (2010-2020), the Royal Government, ministries and institutions, including the Ministry of Interior, transferred some functions, authority and resources to the sub-national administration, and this work was organized. Step by step, with discussion, consultation and consensus. Samdech stressed that in the past, it has been suggested that the decentralization reform or transfer of these functions is a collection or transfer of authority to the Ministry of Interior.
Samdech considered the above perception to be incorrect, as the law on the organization requires the establishment of an inter-ministerial committee, the NCDD. With the Minister of Interior as the chair or can be identified as the leading ministry in coordinating the reform process, therefore, on behalf of the NCDD. Samdech Krala Hom emphasizes that decentralization is the transfer of power, the transfer of functions, the transfer of resources and the transfer of responsibilities to sub-national administrations, or in other words, the transfer of power to the people through the Council. The sub-national lottery, which represents them, is to meet the needs of the people and communities in each locality.
Samdech Krala Hom also confirmed to the meeting that in the process of decentralization and deconcentration, the Ministry of Interior has already transferred many powers, functions, resources and responsibilities to sub-national administrations, including the transfer of power. Resources and responsibilities for managing the provision of administrative services to the people, transfer of more than 7,000 staff of the Ministry of Interior under the direct control of the sub-national administration.
Samdech Krala Hom added, “Without the transfer of authority, functions and resources to the sub-national administration, this reform process cannot be considered as a decentralized and deconcentrated reform process.
Specific authority, like an empty-handed administration, cannot be governed by the principles of a unified and democratic administration that ensures the coordination of all public administration activities for the benefit of the people in its territory. Defined in the organization law.
Samdech Krala Hom reminded that the current decentralization and deconcentration reforms are similar to the process of transferring the functions of resources from the national level to the sub-national administration during the period of the Cambodian state, where the government at that time gave authority, functions, resources and Responsible to sub-national administrations, and departments, offices, specialized units as staff and under the coordination and management of each sub-national administration, then called the People’s Committee of the province, municipality, district, Khan and commune. Neighborhood.
He added that such arrangements have empowered sub-national administrations with specific competencies and responsibilities to protect and maintain security, public order, service delivery, local development and address challenges in The situation where our country has a civil war.
