Public administration reform

While expecting tangible results of the Public Administration Reform: Enhancing civil society monitoring

Six months after the start of implementation of Public Administration Reform Strategy, Institute Alternative, together with partners and representatives of the administration, has been working on improvement of the methodology for monitoring this reform, which is crucial for our progress in European integration, depolitization of the society and prevention of the public resources abuse. Improved…

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Accountable public finances, Public administration reform

Agency for Prevention of Corruption to provide information on public officials

For more than three months now, the Agency refuses to provide us with a list of all public officials in Montenegro and a list of public officials who gave consent to the Agency to check their bank accounts, as well as the copies of those consents. Also, the Agency has not provided us with a…

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Public administration reform

Ministries score high for labor disputes costs, but accounts for lost millions are lacking

While the Government is implementing austerity measures by reducing social welfare, for lost judicial and labor disputes, it paid 71 million euros in the last four years. Regardless of these high costs, competent authorities do not bear consequences for mistakes and non-compliance with their contractual and legal obligations. “The fact that tax payers paid more…

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Rule of law

IA on Freedom of Assembly in Montenegro at the OSCE roundtable

Representative of Institute Alternative, Ivana Bogojevic, has participated in a roundtable on monitoring of public assemblies, organised by OSCE, ODIHR – Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Roundtable was held in Vienna, from 14th till 15th December, followed by presentation of the Third Report on Monitoring of Freedom of Peaceful Assembly in selected OSCE…

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Rule of law

Property Checking of Police Officers

TV Vijesti/Svetlana Đokić While the debate about whether some police officers in Montenegro are on the mafia’s payroll has been heating up, Vijesti, a Montenegrin daily newspaper and television, asked the Agency for Prevention of Corruption for the right to access the official records about what Agency had detected by cross-checking for inconsistencies between the…

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Public policy school

Announcement: A step closer towards sustainable and good public policy

During the award ceremony, Stevo Muk, the president of the Managing Board of Institute alternative, expressed his satisfaction considering that the participants were some 100 representatives of different sectors, mostly young people from state administration, as well as NGOs who sucessfully completed this training. This is the fifth time that Institute Alternative is organising the…

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