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Accountable public finances, Parliamentary program
Seminar on public procurement for Parliamentary Service
We organized a seminar on public procurement for sixteen representatives of Parliamentary Staff, on 26-27 April in Miločer. The seminar is one of the activities foreseen under the project “Strengthening Parliamentary Oversight of Public Procurement System”, which is supported by the Democracy Commission Small Grants U.S. Embassy in Montenegro. Through an intensive two-day training, participants…
Accountable public finances, Parliamentary program
Press release: Better public procurement oversight by strengthening the Parliament
The Parliament has an important role in controlling government’s spending and procurement, and should have the capacity to verify key information about the funds allocated to consumer units, but also regarding effective and efficient of these resources. The role of the Parliament of Montenegro in the control of the public procurement system remains limited. This…
Zoran Stojiljković’s lecture
On Monday, April 22, at 18 o’clock, has been held the second block class of the Public Policy school. Class was dedicated to the anti-corruption policies as an example of sector policies, which was explained by professor Zoran Stojiljkovic. The topic (keyword): In order to develop a comprehensive research model, the prior attempt is to…
IA’s representative at the ReSPA conference
Milena Milošević, our public policy researcher, took part at the seventh annual conference of the Regional School for Public Administration, ReSPA. How to improve more efficient making, implementation and evaluation of public policies was the main topic of this year’s conference, which was held on April 18 and 19. Around twenty experts from the region…
Stevo Muk in the political talkshow “From my point of view”
Stevo Muk, IA’s president of the Managing Board, took part in the political talkshow “From my viewpoint” hosted by Tina Raičević on Television Vijesti. Announced civic protests and events surrounding the recently held presidential elections were the topic of the show. Other guest were Miodrag Lekić, independent presidential candidate, Predrag Sekulić, an MP from the…
Measures of secret surveillance in the 2012 Human Rights Report
The State Department’s 2012 Human Rights Report for Montenegro quotes the findings of our policy briefs “National Security Agency and Secret Surveillance Measures – Is there any control?” and ”Secret Surveillance Measures in Criminal Procedure – Neglected Control” on the number of persons who were subjected to these measeures and data collection, as well as…
Training on monitoring accession negotiations in chapter 23
Dina Bajramspahić, our policy analyst, took part in the three-day training to improve the capacity of the members of Coalition of NGO’s for monitoring the negotiations in Chapter 23 – Judiciary and fundamental rights. Training was an activity within the project “Let’s make the negotiation process public” that is being led by Centre for Development…
Researching police corruption
Our researchers, Dina Bajramspahić and Marko Sošić, participated in the regional training course on researching police corruption. The workshops are specifically designed to improve the capacity of civil society organizations dealing with security issues in the region of Southeast Europe. Nine sessions of the first workshop dealt with “Theory and practice of researching police corruption”.…
EU accession negotiations, Parliamentary program
Civil society involvement in accession negotiations: Too much to ask?
Key characteristics of the civil society’s participation in the process of Montenegro’s accession negotiations are the key topic of the analysis of our research coordinator, Jovana Marović, which has been published in the publication “Parliamentary Challenges in the EU Accession Process” of the Institute for Democracy and Mediation from Tirana, Albania. You can download the…
Press release: IA Will Monitor Recruitment And Promotion In State Administration Bodies
With an intention to contribute to the break with the existing practices of nepotism and politicisation in the state administration, Institute Alternative (IA) has started monitoring of the implementation of the new Law on Civil Servants and State Employees. New Law entered into force on January 1 and is expected to introduce expert and working…
III module of the 2013 Public Policy School
The third module of the Public Policy school has been held on April 13 – 14 2013. The programe was continued with the lecture on “policy analysis” by Anka Kekez Koštro and Milan Koštro. The topic (keywords): The main purpose of this workshop was to bring closer students to the purpose of analysis procedures in…
Accountable public finances, EU accession negotiations
IA in the working group for chapter 32 – Financial control
Our researcher, Marko Sošić, was appointed by the Government as a member of the working group for the preparation of negotiations on the accession of Montenegro to the EU concerning the negotiation chapter 32 – Financial control. In this area, we have dealt with a number of issues related to the impact of the state audit’s…