Parliamentary program, Public administration reform

Press release: Director’s exam and transparency of our administration

The Administrative Inspection and other supervisory bodies should make a statement regarding the affair of alleged withholding the information on passing the professional examination for work in state authorities by the current director of the Agency for prevention of corruption and the implementation of the very procedure. According to the media coverage, Sreten Radonjić, the…

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Accountable public finances

Institute alternative’s comments on the Draft Budget for 2016 of the Capital City Podgorica

Institute alternative delivered its recommendations for more transparent budget presentation in 2016. Our suggestions concern the manner in which budget data are represented n the Draft Budget of the Capital City and the following justification. Some of the recommendations strongly point out the need for understandible presentation of budget expenses and real needs of the…

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Accountable public finances

Press release: Central public discussion on planned budget of the Capital for the year 2016 has passed unnoticed

Yesterdays half empty press room in KIC ‘Budo Tomovic’ is a proof of the lack of participation of our citizens at public debates on local budgets. Institute alternative participated yesterday at the central public debate on Budget Draft of the Capital City for 2016. Among twenty participants, most of them represented their councilor clubs or…

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Rule of law

Police integrity in Montenegro is compromised

Police integrity in Montenegro has been compromised by the corruption, misuse of official position, excessive use of force and political actions, as shown by the research conducted by Institute alternative. The research is divided in six chapters, each of them dealing with the analysis of the work transparency, depoliticization, human resources management, financial management and…

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Blog, Parliamentary program

Institution building in four steps

Agency for Prevention of Corruption should be operational by 1 January 2016. There is a vast array of preconditions for the commencement of functioning of this “emerging” institution and we chose four of them to test in practice. Legality. The emergence of the key institution for prevention of violations of the legal order was marked…

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Parliamentary program

Press release: The Agency for Prevention of Corruption will not have enough resources

Determined budget proposal of the Agency for Prevention of Corruption is not based on a previous analysis of the optimal conditions for its work and providing results, it is not harmonised with other documents and regulations, and the procedure of its harmonisation reduces the jurisdiction of the Council of the Agency prescribed by the Law.…

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