Database of the Powers and Functions of the Royal Government of Cambodia

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Database of the Powers and Functions of the Royal
Government of Cambodia

• By Khlok Dara
• Consultant

German Technical Cooperation Administrative
Reform and Decentralization Program implemented
by GTZ Royal School of Administration, 26 August
2008
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Outline

• Background
• Database of Powers and Functions
• Current Stage of Development
• Supporting information and criteria
• Classification of power and function
• Information from the database
• Contact

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Background

• Set up by the request of RGC
• Previously, no single library or database of laws
  and regulations and powers and functions of all
  level of government
• All relevant powers and functions of government
  need to be reviewed and reallocated
• Database work started in 2002
• The overall objective is all powers and functions
  of government agencies at all levels in a single
  database, with sorting by various criteria

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Powers and functions Database?

• A collection of information on the operation of
  government as set out in the existing legal
  framework of the Kingdom of Cambodia
• Support and assist interested stakeholders,
  including government, development partners, and
  NGOs in the analysis of government powers and
  functions
• Information in the database is stored in both
  Khmer and English.
• means of classifying and retrieving this
  information by various criteria of sector,
  sub-sector, classification, target group,
  front/back office, legal document, and level of
  government

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Current stage of development

• Still under development
• More than 400 existing laws and regulations has
  been analyzed, with data extracted and classified
  according to a range of criteria for more than
  10,000 specific tasks
• Four consultative meetings held on powers and
  functions of commune/sangkat, education, health,
  and NREM
• Open more stakeholder participation

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Supporting information and criteria

• Reference to legal document
• Information on government agency
• Level of government
• Generic classification (common to all sector)
• Sector, sub-sector,
• Internal/external relationship
• Target group

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Classification of powers and functions

• Sector powers and functions are sorted according
  to whether they are for health, education, land
  management, etc.
• Sub-Sector these are various categories of tasks
  that come under each sector, and enable related
  powers and functions to be grouped closer
  together in data outputs.
• Generic classification this is not tied to any
  particular sector, but allow powers and functions
  to be sorted according to the classifications of
  administration, human resources, policy and
  strategy, service delivery, monitoring and
  control, and so on.
• Front Office the powers and functions most
  relevant to discussions on decentralization are
  those in which the government deals directly with
  the public or provides services used directly by
  the public.

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Information from the database

• Information on powers and functions by specific
  sector, sub-sector, generic classification,
  target group, government agency, level of
  government
• Information on public services (front office)
• Information on powers and functions for internal
  government management
• Information on powers and functions for
  decentralized government

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Information from the database (cont.)

• Information on overlapping
• Information on cross cutting issues (natural
  resource, poverty alleviation, government human
  resource)
• Data linked to laws and regulations

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Contact us

• Office of the Council of Ministers
• 41, Russian Federation Blvd., Phnom Penh,
  Cambodia
• P.O. Box 1262, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Phone (855) (0)23 99 02 06
• Fax (855) (0)23 21 27 83
• Email database_at_ardp.org.kh
• Website http//www.ardp.org.kh
• Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer
• Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH
• German Technical Cooperation Programme
• Administrative Reform and Decentralization
• Cambodia

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Thanks