April 2013
Measures of secret surveillance in the 2012 Human Rights Report
20. 04. 2013.
The State Department’s 2012 Human Rights Report for Montenegro quotes the findings of our policy briefs “National Security Agency and Secret Surveillance Measures – Is there any control?” and ”Secret Surveillance Measures in Criminal Procedure – Neglected Control” on the number of persons who were subjected to these measeures and data collection, as well as…
Training on monitoring accession negotiations in chapter 23
19. 04. 2013.
Dina Bajramspahić, our policy analyst, took part in the three-day training to improve the capacity of the members of Coalition of NGO’s for monitoring the negotiations in Chapter 23 – Judiciary and fundamental rights. Training was an activity within the project “Let’s make the negotiation process public” that is being led by Centre for Development…
Researching police corruption
18. 04. 2013.
Our researchers, Dina Bajramspahić and Marko Sošić, participated in the regional training course on researching police corruption. The workshops are specifically designed to improve the capacity of civil society organizations dealing with security issues in the region of Southeast Europe. Nine sessions of the first workshop dealt with “Theory and practice of researching police corruption”.…
Civil society involvement in accession negotiations: Too much to ask?
18. 04. 2013.
Key characteristics of the civil society’s participation in the process of Montenegro’s accession negotiations are the key topic of the analysis of our research coordinator, Jovana Marović, which has been published in the publication “Parliamentary Challenges in the EU Accession Process” of the Institute for Democracy and Mediation from Tirana, Albania. You can download the…
Press release: IA Will Monitor Recruitment And Promotion In State Administration Bodies
17. 04. 2013.
With an intention to contribute to the break with the existing practices of nepotism and politicisation in the state administration, Institute Alternative (IA) has started monitoring of the implementation of the new Law on Civil Servants and State Employees. New Law entered into force on January 1 and is expected to introduce expert and working…
III module of the 2013 Public Policy School
15. 04. 2013.
The third module of the Public Policy school has been held on April 13 – 14 2013. The programe was continued with the lecture on “policy analysis” by Anka Kekez Koštro and Milan Koštro. The topic (keywords): The main purpose of this workshop was to bring closer students to the purpose of analysis procedures in…