2015
Announcement of the Press Conference: Police Integrity in the Western Balkans
25. 02. 2015.
Regional network of civil society organizations POINTPULSE is organizing a panel “Police Integrity in the Western Balkans” that will be held on Friday, February 27th, at 10h in the Media Centre in Belgrade (Terazije 3). These questions will be addressed at the event: How can civil society encourage accountability and integrity in policing? What are…
Meeting with the contracting authorities
20. 02. 2015.
Today we organized the meeting with public procurement officers. This meeting was the follow up of the research on the attitudes of the contracting authorities and bidders about the risk for corruption in the public procurement procedure. In the first phase of the research, the public procurement officers have been submitting their remarks and suggestion,…
Statement regarding the amendments to the Law on National Security Agency
19. 02. 2015.
We cannot be satisfied with the final decisions adopted by the Parliament; in particular with the decision which stipulates that the Director of the Agency approves the inspection of registers and databases of legal entities. As we have pointed out many times, the practice of the European Court of Human Rights, which is required for…
House of the Civil Society at the agenda of Council for NGOs
18. 02. 2015.
During the meeting of the Council for the Development of NGOs held today, the second topic on the agenda was “Discussion on the Government’s response on the question of the Council on the Civic house project.” During one of the previous meetings of the Council (held on November 17th 2014), the President of the Managing…
Transparency Hurts
18. 02. 2015.
If you intended to find details about public procurement, arm yourself with patience, concentrate and – take fifteen-day long break. Representatives of state institutions swear that their work is transparent and emphasize that everything is publicly available on the websites or that all information in possession of the state organ is possible to obtain by…
Transparify: IA Among the Most Transparent Think Tanks in the World
18. 02. 2015.
Five stars again! Our status of the highly transparent research center has once again been confirmed in the new survey by Transparify. Institute Alternative has been declared, second year in a row, to be one of the most transparent research centers in world, according to the survey conducted by international non-profit organization Transparify. Research centers…