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Press release: Memorandum on cooperation with the Personal Data Protection Agency signed
Agency for the Protection of Personal Data and the NGO “Institute Alternative” signed on September 7, 2012 a Memorandum on future cooperation. By signing this document, the successful cooperation between the Agency and NGO ”Institute Alternative” continues in order to raise awareness about the importance of the right to protection of personal data. The parties…
Press release: Institutions Must Show Respect for the Parliament
Statements of the Supreme State Prosecutor’s Office and Directorate against money laundering and terrorist financing explicitly declares that the Law on Parliamentary Inquiry and the Law on Parliamentary Oversight in the Security and Defense Area are not binding for these authorities. These laws stipulate that public authorities are obliged to provide access to all requested…
Press release: New law on social and child care – a road to real changes?
Driven by the ongoing reform of social and child protection, IA has submitted to the Ministry on Labor and Social Welfare the comments on the Draft of Law on Social and Child protection aimed at improving the quality of protection of beneficiaries of social rights. Certain provisions need to be changed and better defined in…
Press release: A critique of the proposed Law on Social and Child Protection prepared
The Government of Montenegro adopted the Bill of Law on Social and Child Protection on July 26. The large number of remarks submitted by the representatives of the CSOs haven’t been approved. Remarks indicating the necessity of clear division of jurisdictions and responsibilities of local governments in the exercising rights procedure and provision of social…
Jovana Marović on EU accession negotiations for Dan
Journalist’s questions: How the candidate country negotiates with the EU for membership? Is there really something to negotiate about? How many years the negotiation process could take? Answers of IA’s research coordinator and member of the Working Group on Chapter 23, Jovana Marović: Negotiations of the candidate country with the European Union for membership in…
Parliamentary program, Rule of law
Who Still Cares For the Committee’s Conclusions?
Supreme State Prosecutor and Administration for Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing didn’t fulfill the obligations, envisaged by the conclusion from the February’s control hearing, conducted by the Security and Defence Committee. They failed to meet the deadline for submitting information about the activities they undertook in examining allegations about the corruption during and…
Public policy school – 2012
Motivated by the fact that the formal education system in Montenegro does not offer sufficient knowledge and skills in the study of public policy, Institute Alternative started in February 2012 realization of the Public Policy School. Program was realized in collaboration with the Centre for Monitoring (CEMI), with the support of the Commission for the…
Non-Governmental Organisations To Monitor Implementation of Reforms Within the Chapter 23
Upon the initiative and under a coordination of the Centre for Development of Non-governmental Ogranisations, the coalition of NGOs for monitoring the negotiations about the Chapter 23 was established. The long term goal of the coalition is to bring tangible improvement of standards of living of Montenegrin people. Coalition is consisted from organisations, experienced in…
Reason and revolution
Politics is rational activity. That’s why it is important for us from the non-governmental sector, when trying to change the system, and for political parties, when trying to change the face of power, to bring decisions via reasonable dialogue instead of sterile revolutionary noise. The 1990 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, in…
Analysis ”Montenegro and Negotiations About the Chapter 23 – Judiciary and Fundamental Rights” Presented
Analysis of Institute Alternative “Montenegro and Negotiations About the Chapter 23 – Judiciary and Fundamental Rights“ was presented at the press conference on June 19, 2012. Think Tank Fund supported the research. The aim of the analysis was that, based on the Croatian experiences within the talks about the Chapter 23 and the European Commission’s…
Conference: The role of Supreme Audit Institutions in Party Financing Control
Representative of Institute Alternative participated in the work of the Second Regional Conference of Supreme Audit Institutions, named “The role of Supreme Audit Institutions in Party Financing Control“. President of the Managing Board of Institute Alternative, Stevo Muk, presented the relations between the State Audit Institution and NGO sector, emphasising possibilities steming from the Strategic…
Financial Independence of the SAI and Implementation of its Recommendations
Questions of the reporter from the daily newspaper Dan: 1. Is there any possibility for an increase of the SAI’s budget? 2. Why the adoption of the changes to the Law on SAI has been postponed? 3. In your opinion, in which way the implementation of the SAI’s recommendations can be improved? Answers of IA’s…