2023
NGOs submitted proposals and priorities for public administration reform
17. 11. 2023.
A meeting of the National Working Group for Public Administration Reform was held in Podgorica, attended by representatives of the civil society and the Ministry of Public Administration. At the meeting, discussions revolved around the 2024 priorities of the Ministry of Public Administration and proposals from representatives of non-governmental organisations for improving public administration reform.…
European Commission Report’s findings for 2023 as expected
10. 11. 2023.
Dragana Jaćimović, public policy researcher at the Institute Alternative, participated in an online discussion organised by the European Policy Centre (CEP) on the topic of the European Union (EU) enlargement package for 2023 and the very functioning of democratic institutions in the countries of the Western Balkans. The participants also discussed the recently published reports…
Political parties hold the key to unfreezing the road to the EU
08. 11. 2023.
In the annual report, the European Commission noted a lower average assessment of progress, recognised that only one recommendation was fully fulfilled within the fundamentals cluster, while the average assessment of readiness remained the same. The absence of effective political dialogue and constructive approach by political parties was particularly highlighted in this year’s report, with…
Discussing the repression of corruption in public procurement with the Police
07. 11. 2023.
Police efforts in cases concerning corruption in public procurement were discussed at the meeting – the first one in a series of meetings on the performance of repressive institutions in the fight against corruption in public procurement. On November 6, Institute Alternative (IA) organised a meeting attended by representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs…
Openly about the issues of internal auditors
02. 11. 2023.
The internal audit system still suffers from a lack of personnel, frequent misunderstanding of this institute by public sector managers, as well as insufficient coverage of the public sector by internal audit. These are some of the issues raised at the meeting with internal auditors in the public sector, which we organised on October 27th…
Files on allocation of budget reserve 2016-2019 destroyed
01. 11. 2023.
For over two years, we have been awaiting a response from the Government regarding the distribution of the budget reserve during the term of the 41st Government, only to finally be informed that the documentation has been destroyed Files detailing how the Government Commission for the distribution of funds from the budget reserve distributed money…