March 2017
Reaction: Announced amandments to the Law on public assemblies would be a setback of civil liberties
31. 03. 2017.
Following the Minister of Interior announcement that he will initiate amendments to the Law on public assemblies and public performances, in order to ban the protests on city roads, Institute Alternative warns that such legal provision would be a step backwards in relation to existing law. Additionally, it would represent step backwards from the European…
Interview for Monitor: We seem to be in a prolonged state of emergency
31. 03. 2017.
Interview with Stevo Muk, President of the Managing Board of Institute Alternative for weekly Monitor Institute Alternative has recently conducted a public opinion poll which has shown that problems within public administration are various. Nevertheless, it seems that the corruption and favouritism are burning issues. Would you say that it is only the follow-up of…
Conference: “Where Does Our Money Go? – Transparency and Accountability of the National Budget”
28. 03. 2017.
Within the project “Promoting financial accountability in Montenegro”, supported by the British Embassy in Podgorica, we have organised the conference “Where does our money go? – Transparency and accountability of the national budget” on March 27, 2017. At the conference, we presented our new web portal My money (www.mojnovac.me). The web portal contains visualisation and…
Public Opinion Poll: Average Grade for Services at the Local Level
24. 03. 2017.
Citizens mostly use municipal services, but they think that the quality of local administration services is not particularly good. According to the public opinion poll conducted by IPSOS agency for Institute Alternative, within our project “Civil Society for Good Governance: to Act and Account!“, citizens provided a 5 for municipal services, on a scale from…
Press release: Speed up the police reform
23. 03. 2017.
The result of implementation of the Strategy of the Police Administration Development is far from satisfactory – more than 60% envisaged obligation is not fulfilled. At first sight, the strategy is comprehensive, since it envisages activities in key areas for the police service reform, such as fight against crime, citizens’ safety, fight against corruption and…
Public opinion survey: Public administration problems pile up, despite the moderate trust
20. 03. 2017.
Citizens think that employment irregularities, inefficiency and corruption are key problems of public administration. They recognize employment through private connections as the largest problem of the public administration. Every second citizen believes that this is only one of many problems (51%), while one in five believes that this is the biggest problem (22%). Recruitment based…