2017
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…
Press release: Agency to inform the public whether officials report and account for their income and assets
08. 03. 2017.
Institute Alternative (IA) submitted recommendations to the Agency for Prevention of Corruption which are primarily aimed at improving transparency of Agency’s activities, particularly the control of assets declarations of public officials and civil servants as well as outcomes of those controls. The reason is, primarily, poor visibility of the results of the Agency’s work during…
Interview: Politics Impede Reform Efforts
08. 03. 2017.
The government plans to reduce the number of public sector employees by 5,000 people, by 2020, while the political influence in public administration is unavoidable, as the key institutions – ministries are guided by political figures, said Milena Milošević, public policy researcher at the Institute alternative, in an interview with Daily ”DAN”. She warned that…