Historically, decentralization was first mentioned in the 1800s, by Alexis de Tocqueville when he wrote that the French Revolution began with “a push towards decentralization”. In 1863 retired French bureaucrat Maurice Block wrote an article called “Decentralization” for a French journal which reviewed the dynamics of government and bureaucratic centralization and recent French efforts at decentralization of government functions. [1] Since the 1980s decentralization and globalization are topics in most European and developing countries (the World Bank Premnotes, 2001; BiZa, 1980). Decentralization has been a main emphasis worldwide in the debate on governance for more than a decade. It is seen as a means to improve governance and reduce the level of degradation resulting from poverty. The definition of decentralization means diverse things to different people and it is not so much a theory as it is a common and variable practice in most countries to mainly achieve an assorted arr...