The Khmer Amateur Athletics Federation (KAAF), founded in 1956 and recognized by World Athletics, is dedicated to promoting and developing the sport of athletics in the Kingdom of Cambodia. Its objectives include encouraging the implementation of international athletics technical rules of competition from the basic level to high level and establishing the yearly athletics competition calendar. Membership is open to all athletics associations from ministries, institutions at national level and municipal and provincial authorities within the Kingdom of Cambodia.

The KAAF has a deliberative and administrative organ, composed of the General Assembly, the Executive Committee, the internal auditor, and the General Secretariat as delegated by the Executive Committee. The General Assembly is the supreme authority of the KAAF and determines the policy in furtherance of the aims and objectives of the KAAF. The Executive Committee is responsible for making recommendations to the General Assembly and ruling on the direction of the KAAF policy. The Internal auditor monitors and evaluates KAAF's financial management each year.

The KAAF's official languages are Khmer, English, and French, and its official emblem includes the Cambodia map in blue located in a yellow circle surrounding by a red circumference, an athlete symbol running from right to left with the abbreviation in Khmer at the top, and the wording "Khmer KAAF" in white.