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Public Sector Reform: To Make Their Administration Ours Too
Even though it is difficult to determine in practice whether a person was employed based on their party affiliation, citizens most often complain of the Head of authorities’ arbitrariness during election of candidates for a certain government job position. The President of the Managing Board of Institute Alternative (IA) Stevo Muk said in an interview…
Procurement in state administration in figures
In 2014, state authorities have spent 52 994 714, 56 euro. The Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism had the largest completed budget for public procurement in 2014 – 23 278 015, 51 euro and The Secretariat for Development Projects had the lowest one – 16 740,60 euro. The total amount of 14 state authorities…
Parliamentary program, Public administration reform, Rule of law
TV Show Replika
President of our Managing Board, Stevo Muk, was a guest in a TV Show “Replika”, airing on public broadcasting service. The show was dedicated to the Law on the implementation of the Agreement on Free and Fair elections. The guests discussed the new composition of the Government, which now includes representatives of the opposition, the…
Press release: IA did the competent institutions’ job by publishing contracts on municipal debt reprogramming
Contracts on municipal debt reprogramming in Montenegro are not proactively published on the websites of the Ministry of Finance and local authorities; instead Institute Alternative had to pay in order to publish this important information on its website My town (Moj grad). Institute Alternative received contracts on municipal debt reprogramming for 16 municipalities in Montenegro…
Parliamentary program, Public administration reform
Press Release: Bill on Administrative Inspection finally in the Parliament
Institute Alternative welcomes putting on the Agenda of the Parliament of Montenegro the Bill on Administrative Inspection adopted by the Government in March 2015 and calls upon the MPs to improve the text of this law through amendment procedure. Taking into account the importance of this regulation for the legality, efficiency and effectiveness of the…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
What administration do we want by 2020: While waiting tangible results…
Instead of being at service of citizens and business, public administration is a burden to them – this is a message delivered by Institute Alternative at today’s conference in Podgorica. The conference was organized within the project “Civil Society for Good Governance: To Act and Account” with the support of the European Union, in cooperation…