The Relationship between Good Governance and Decentralized System

It is impossible in the administration systems, to find out a fully centralized or decentralized system; there is a form of distribution of powers to the lower administration units. This is true for the Kurdistan Region as well, where the Region consists units such as governorates, districts, and sub-districts. However, the administration system in the Kurdistan Region is characterized by contradiction. There is a set of laws and decisions to approve the decentralized system, whereas these decisions are not implemented properly. Due to political conflicts, especially after the internal war (1994-1998), which resulted in two administrations unites, one in Erbil and the another in Sulaymaniyah, and ended with the establishment of a unified government in 2006, but the political, economic, and cultural effects of the internal war prevented the unity and the objectives of unification between the two mentioned administrations; affecting any reform steps toward establishing a good governance and decentralized system.