Khmer Association for Development (KAD) is a non-governmental organization led by Board of Directors and Executive Committee.
1. Board of Directors
• The Board of Directors is the lagislative institution of the organization with 3-7 members who are highly-educated, well-behaved and well-experienced. The members of the Board of Directors are selected both from outside of KAD.
• The mandate of the Board of Directors is limited to two years. The Board of Directors can change its members at the request of its chairman through its meeting’s decision by the majority of 50 plus 1 or ordinary assembly.
• The Board of Directors is led by 1 chairman elected from the members of the Board of Directors in the board meeting which two-third of the members attend by the decision of the majority of 50 plus 1.
1.1 Duties of the Board of Directors
The board of directors has the following duties:
• To submit a request for an appointment and dismissal of Executive Committee to the ordinary or extraordinary assembly for examination and approval.
• To decide on the guidelines, the major plans, the goals and the activities prior to submission to Executive Committee for implementation in line with the objectives of KAD.
• To scrutinize and to propose a change of the members of Executive Committee and the Board of Directors to the assembly for approval. Two-third of the Board of Directors proposes the agenda to the assembly and decision, deprivation or change of any or all of the compositions of the Board of Directors or the membership of Executive Committee can be officially done by the two-third majority of the members of the assembly upwards.
• To formulate the guidelines and policy of Khmer Association for Development and put forward to the assembly for scrutiny and for decision.
• To monitor the activities and steer the Executive Committee towards their destination.
• To draft and to adopt the by-laws for KAD.
• To assist in finding funds for KAD in cooperation with KAD Director.
• To consider every request raised by the Executive Committee.
2. Executive Committee
Executive Committee is the executive institution implementing and directing the projects or programs of the organization. Executive Committee is composed of the makes- up from 5-9 persons, some of whom are selected from the founding members and some others employed from the external milieus. Director of KAD will recruit and change the members of Executive Committee by requesting for support from the Board of Directors and/or from the assembly.
2.1 Duties of Executive Committee
Executive Committee performs the following duties:
• To prepare draft statutes, internal regulations, guidelines, project plans and strategies to be submitted to the Board of Directors for examination and decision before passing through the assembly.
• To implement the projects/programs of the organization as required by the Board of Directors and assembly.
• To make reports on activities and to make financial statement to be submitted to the Board of Directors and to relevant institutions such as the Ministry of Interior.
• To help find funds for KAD by all ways and where possible.
• To cooperate and to make public relationship with other organizations, associations and related institutions.
• To maintain all the performance documents and assets of KAD.
• To organize annual and extraordinary assemblies. In the assemblies, the achieved activities and budget (income, expenditure) are publicly reported.
Please download the following organizational structure: KAD Organizational Structure