State owned enterprises spend money on donations, sponsorships and one-off social assistance: Millions are leaking without any rule and order

08. 07. 2019.

By spending the money which they mostly raise thanks to their monopolistic position in the market, state-owned enterprises support sports associations and federations, cultural and musical events, and also pay one-off social assistance to legal entities and individuals. State-owned enterprises, including those which have been incurring losses for years, spend millions of euros a year…

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The updated portal ”My Money” presented

04. 07. 2019.

At the workshop organised for the representatives of NGOs and media, we presented an updated and upgraded portal ‘’My Money’’, a visualisation of state-level budget data, which provides citizens a simple insight in the way that administration collects and spends their money. The portal was launched in 2017, as the first civil society visualisation of…

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IA at the Fair of NGOs

03. 07. 2019.

Institute Alternative was one of the 36 promoters that presented work of their organisation on the Fair of non – governmental organisations, held on June 22, 2019 in Berane. The fair called „NGO EXPO 2019“ was organised for the fourth time, and during the past years this fair gathered citizens and activists from civil society…

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Muk: Montenegro made too little of a progress in fields disputable from the very beginning

03. 07. 2019.

Montenegro has progressed on the European path, but not enough if taking into account the resources invested in this process, primarily the investments of the EU and other international and local actors, stated President of the Managing Board of Institute Alternative, Stevo Muk. Muk commented on the seven years of the Montenegrin negotiations with the…

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Ministry of Finance to Organise a Public Discussion on the Public Procurement Law

27. 06. 2019.

We call upon the Ministry of Finance to organise a public discussion on the Draft Law on Public Procurement in order to enable all the relevant stakeholders to take part in the preparation of this document which will regulate multi-million budgetary spending. Instead of public discussion, on 10 June 2019 the Ministry of Finance announced…

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Workshop: Where Does My Money Go?

26. 06. 2019.

Institute Alternative (IA) is organizing the workshop ‘’Where Does My Money Go’’ in order to introduce representatives of the NGO sector and the media with our innovated website ‘’My Money’’ and to provide instructions for easy search. The aim of presentation is better understanding of its future users of the budget and its higher availability…

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