Between January 2003 and March 2005 the project Asia Urbs 2, „Reform of Battambang Province Administration“ has kicked off and guided a process of administrative decentralization targeting the Cambodian province. The overall objective of the program was to create a transparent, efficient provincial administration ion order to change the mind-sets of actors according to good governance considerations, to create an environment conducive to economic transactions and to raise the quality of living of the local population, in a few plain words, to make socio-economic development occur.