Sunday, 6 December 2009

Cambodia Creates Committee for Village Development


Saturday, 05 December 2009 04:58 DAP-NEWS

(Posted by CAAI News Media)

The Cambodian government will set up a committee of village development to improve villages across the country and provide power to the sub-national level to decide development policy for villages locally, an official said on Friday.

“We already handed over that draft regulation to the Council of Ministers to review and decide upon it before it comes into force,” an anonymous senior Justice Ministry official told DAP News Cambodia. “After we have discussed with all involving partners, we all agreed on that draft regulation and the Council of Ministers’ work on this draft regulation,” he said.

“The development donor and civil organizations will join in hands with the government to implement this development projects … and finance will come from all sides and the local people in the communities have to raise the main priorities to develop their communities.”

“All villages across the country will get fund for the development projects and the sub national level play a key to develop their areas,” he added.

In 1998 there were a total of 1,609 communes and 13,406 villages in Cambodia. However according to the 2008 census there are now 1,621 communes in Cambodia and 14,073 villages.

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