Article
6 (new):
A general department of administration and finance is in charge of liaison, coordination and supervision of administration work, staff, materials, equipment, accounting, finance, planning, statistics, monitoring, and evaluation, national and international cooperation and training, research and dissemination. A general department shall be headed by one president and assisted by a number of vice-general directors if necessary. This general department shall consist of five departments as follows:
- Department of administration and personnel;
- Department of supply and finance;
- Department of planning and public relations;
- Department of training and research; and
- Department for ethnic minority development.
Article 11 (new):
Department for ethnic minority development is in charge of:
- Proposing short-term, medium and long-term plans for development of ethnic minority community;
- Study and research about ethnic minority living in the mountainous, plain and delta zones specify the exiting identity, forest, culture and customs of each community within the Kingdom of Cambodia
- Preparing, planing and implement programs and ethnic minority development project at the mountainous, plain and delta zones under the specified priority;
- Coordinating all development of ethnic minority living at the mountainous, plain and delta zones within the Kingdom of Cambodia
- Monitoring, evaluation and reporting of all implementation of ethnic monitoring development programs and projects
- Training of civil servants of all levels and organize seminar to encourage the active participation of ethnic minority development process at the mountainous, plain and delta zones
- Creating and management of national information center for development of the mountainous and plain zones by cooperation with relevant institutions, international organizations, non-governmental organizations and neighboring countries having the same mountainous and plain development programs;
- Preparing and improving policies for development of at the mountainous and plain people and submit to the Royal Government for review and approval; and
- Designing the guidelines and criteria for the creation of ethnic minority community at the mountainous, plain and delta zones.
Article 12 (new):
The general department is in charge of liaison, coordination and supervision over rural road, water supply, primary health care and rural economic development. This department shall be headed by one general director and assisted by a number of vice-general directors as assistants if necessary. The general department compuoses of 5 departments as follows:
- Department of rural water supply;
- Department of rural health care;
- Department of community development;
- Department of rual economic development; and
- Department of rural road.
New Article 13 (previously article 12):
Department of rural water supply is in charge of:
- Preparing and proposing plan for restoration and development of small (family, vilage and commune) irrigation system and small power system and safe water supply system for short-term, medium and long-term utilization;
- Study, research, proposing plan for reparis, construction and maintenance of small water supply system for short-term, medium and long-term utilization in cooperation with the relevant authority;
- Inspection of the quality of well water before offering to the local people; and
- Preparing formality related to citizen's operation and maintenance of safe water, consumption water and irrigation water and organization of association or group of rural water consumers.
New Article 14 (previously article 13):
Department of rural health care is in charge of:
- Preparing and proposing plan for short-term, medium and long-term primary health care at the rural areas;
- Training of rural development civil servants and village volunteer health care agents the knowledge and skill on primary health care and hygiene;
- Education on primary health care to the community, including nutrition, women health care, evolution of children, mental health care and prevention against illnesses; and
- Organizing village hygiene and environment by supporting and encourage construction of family and public toilets and educate the villagers to clean their residences and use safe water.
New Article 15 (previously article 14):
Department of community development is in charge of:
- Preparing and proposing plan for short-term, meduim and long-term community development;
- Study and proposing plan for repairs and construction of rural infrastructures, including school, developing village, health care center etc. under the specified plans by cooperation with the relevant institutions;
- Building and managing the community development center
- Encourageing the people to increase food products for family support and markets;
- sending community development agens to rural areas for litercy program, environmental and natureal resource protection and encouragement for reforestation, preservation of tradition, culture and livelihood morality, citizen rights, democracy, appropriate technology for production, mine protection etc.;
- Using its effort to provide support/solution for dispalced persons; and
- Designing formality for creation, extension and strenthening of rural development structure, in particulary, village/commune development committee.
New Article 16 (previously Article 15):
Depatment of rural economic development is in charge of:
- Preparing and proposing plan for short-term, medium and long-term rural economic development;
- Desinging policies and encourage the people to participate in the establishment of village bank, rice bank, animal bank, agricultural equipment bank;
- Prearing formality relating to loan for people and formation of credit associations;
- Encouragement of rural people to save money through dissemination, group building/saving committee and instruction of measures for protection of saving fund;
- Supervise, instruct about the preparation of accounting for rural credit operations;
- Encouragement and promotion of people, association or private sectors to establish small rural enterprises and handicrafts; and
- Study and seeking for markets for circulation of products for reasonable price for the prupose of promoting livelihood of rural farmers and handicrafts.
New Article 17 (additional provision):
Department of rural road is in charge of:
- Preparing and proposing plan for restoration and development of short-term, medium and long-term rural roads;
- Study, research, proposing plan for reparis, construction and maintenance or rural roads;
- Management of all rural roads with less than 50 vehicles trafficking per day;
- Implementation and analyze the calculation of vehicle traffic and inventory book of rural roads;
- Organization and improvement of rural road policies to meet with:
