October 2018
Materials for Council’s sessions to be published in advance
29. 10. 2018.
Agency for Prevention of Corruption does not publish materials for the Council’s sessions in advance, thus further disabling interested public to participate in this body’s work. The Agency did not publish the Third Quarterly Performance Report for 2018 nor the Proposal of the Rulebook on internal organisation and systematisation, which are to be discussed at…
Accountability of police officers: spiders pass, and small flies get caught?
27. 10. 2018.
The goal of internal mechanisms for determining accountability is to make difference between those police officers who obey the law and the rules of the service and those who do not obey, or obey to a lesser extent, said Dina Bajramspahic, Public Policy Researcher at Institute Alternative. She highlighted the importance of a consistent and…
Clarifications – Money Watch Call for Proposals
25. 10. 2018.
Below you can find clarifications and answers to the question we have received so far regarding our Call for Proposals for Small Grants Facility within the project Money Watch – Civil Society Guarding the Budget. Clarifications include answers to all the questions raised during the info sessions held in Bijelo Polje, Budva and Podgorica, as well…
The first successes of party soldiers in the Senate of the State Audit Institution
23. 10. 2018.
The story of financial management at the Pension and Disability Insurance Fund regarding the transfer of money to the Union of Pensioners’ Associations, which Vijesti recently initiated, inter alia, pointed to the major mistakes of the State Audit Institution during the oversight of the Fund. The institution, whose primary task is to take care that…
Loss-making enterprises do not reduce salaries while state tolerates violations of laws
22. 10. 2018.
Despite the fact that work of public enterprises is among key elements for development of Montenegrin economy, due to their sheer number of employees and property – the state has been doing nothing to establish an adequate control over their work, for years. This particularly applies to the control of salary policy in enterprises that…
What are the first results of the Public Administration Optimisation Plan?
18. 10. 2018.
Stevo Muk, President of the Managing Board at Institute Alternative, commented on the first Report on the realisation of the Public Administration Optimisation Plan, and pointed out the shortcomings in the Report and in the Plan itself, in the TV Show “Reflektor” aired on TV Vijesti. He pointed out that the Government does not have…