To improve the reform of public finance management and the optimisation of the public sector

04. 10. 2022.

At the first session of the newly formed Public Administration Reform Council, we offered recommendations for improving the draft of the Programme for Public Finance Management Reform for the period 2022-2026, especially highlighting the need for the public enterprises to be included in this important strategic document. Since the draft Programme does not address the…

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Two years of the 27th convocation of the Parliament: The neglect of obligations behind the facade of parliamentary supervision

26. 09. 2022.

Votes of no confidence in the 42nd and 43rd Governments, decisions to launch parliamentary investigations, and weakening of party monopolies – although these speak in favour of a more significant role of the Parliament of Montenegro, they have not reflected qualitative and sustainable progress in the parliamentary control of the executive. A more detailed illustration of…

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MPs do not care about the reports on crime

23. 09. 2022.

Directors render accounts, but no one is controlling them Although the Police Administration directors have regularly sent, with short delays, semi-annual reports in the area of corruption and organised crime since 2018, the Parliamentary Security and Defence Committee considered only one. This is written in the documentation submitted to the Institute Alternative, which asked the…

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Institute Alternative Turns 15!

13. 09. 2022.

Institute Alternative (IA) has remained committed to its mission of strengthening democracy and good governance through research and policy analysis. During fifteen years since its establishment, the IA has launched and implemented 105 projects aimed at reforms of public administration and judiciary, enhancement of transparency and accountability of public finances, parliamentary oversight, better social policy…

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The Government continues to violate the principles of good governance with its arbitrary dismissals

29. 07. 2022.

The Government’s intention to replace the entire managerial staff due to the terminological changes in names and minor adjustments to the scope of work of independent administrative bodies has no basis in the legal framework and is contrary to all the standards of good governance. Cosmetic changes of the Regulation on the Organisation and Method…

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The initiative of 17 NGOS for Montenegro to ratify Protocol 16 to the European Convention

15. 06. 2022.

Today, 17 NGOs sent the Initiative to the President of the Parliament of Montenegro, Danijela Đurović, to put on the agenda as soon as possible the Proposal of the Government of Montenegro from 6 June 2022 for ratification of Protocol 16 to the European Convention for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Ratification of the Protocol will enable…

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