Decentralization Principle and Achieving Sustainable Development in Yemen

Decentralization principle is one of the main modern public management mechanisms that facilitate the good governance as the foundation for achieving prosperity for society. Good governance in its turn considered as the perfect environment to achieve any strategy, especially sustainable development one. This paper, a part of a field study, aims to see the sights and explore the reality of the sustainable development management in Yemen. The issue of ‘decentralization' is an essential part of the study. The primary objective is to examine the extent of adopting the decentralization principle, required for achieving sustainable development, for maintaining the harmony between the central and local authorities' and managerial activities regarding decentralization procedures in Yemen. The study used Chi-square analyses test to reveal that.