In the 1960s and 1970s, the delivery of public services aimed at facilitating efficient systems through decentralization, giving more responsibility to sub-national administrative units (Cheema et al., 2007: 3). Decentralization is a global trend that represents an attempt to create a more democratic and participative approach (Minassian, 1997: 4; Hope Sr & Chikulo, 2000: 26). The term “decentralization” refers to the concept of moving away from the center and comes from Latin (Meenakshisundaram, 1994: 1). Its basic meaning is to delegate some of the central government’s functions and powers of governing to one or more levels of peripheral administration. As defined the concept of decentralization in more detail: Planning, management, and mobilization of resources from the central government and its agencies to field units of central government ministries or agencies, subordinate units or levels of government, semi-autonomous public authorities or corporations, area-wide, regional or functional authorities, or non-governmental private or voluntary organizations (Rondinelli et al., 1983: 13). Thus, decentralization can be understood as the devolution of responsibilities (Rondinelli et al., 1983: 13). The World Bank (Rondinelli, 1999: 1) classifies decentralization into four categories: political, administrative, fiscal, and economic/market.