Department of Local Administration (DLA) is the new governments agency established in the Ministry of Interior. Its main responsibility to promote and support the work of the local administrative organizations (LOAs) through the development and series of advices on the local development plan, personnel administration, finance, and administration in order to strengthen the capacity and efficiency of the local administrative organizations on public service provision. However, the structure, roles and functions of Department of Local Administration have been specified in the Ministerial Regulation on the Organization of the Department of Local Administration, Ministry of Interior, B.E. 2551 (2008) as follows: