Accountable public finances

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…

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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…

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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…

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Accountable public finances, EU accession negotiations, Parliamentary program, Public administration reform, Rule of law

MERLIN in Brussels – About the rule of law with the representatives of the EU

With the colleagues from the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy from Serbia and the European Policy Institute from Macedonia, we visited the EU institutions and talked to representatives of Brussels-based organizations and foundations dealing with the EU accession of the Western Balkans countries from 16 to 19 May 2016. The visit was organized by the…

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Public administration reform

IA representative at the conference on access to information in the digital era

IA’s Public Policy Researcher, Milica Milonjić, participated at the conference on Internet as commons and the new politics of commoning organized by the SHARE Foundation, with the support of Heinrich Boell Foundation, Institute for Political Ecology and Green European Foundation. The event took place from May 19-21, 2016, in Belgrade. The conference gathered more than…

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Accountable public finances, Public administration reform

Institutions covered by the Agreement on Free and Fair Elections to ensure full transparency of work and proactive disclosure of information

Centre for Civic Education (CCE), Institute Alternative (IA) and Network for the Affirmation of NGO sector (MANS) call all institutions, subjects of Agreement on Free and Fair Elections, to ensure full transparency of their work and to provide continuous and timely disclosure of all relevant information in their possession on their official websites. Also, we…

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