Public administration reform

Discretion without explanation: The appeal to establish guidelines for heads of authorities’ decisions

The number of the complaints filed by the candidates for employment in state organs who did not get the job has increased which imposes the need to stipulate in details the discretion of the elders when deciding. Twenty six candidates, of at least 130 who have filed complaints against the decisions on the selection of…

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Accountable public finances

Press release: Open Up the Budget Data

We appeal to the Ministry of Finance to improve the transparency of the national budget by implementing the practice of budgetary data in the form that would allow the data processing and searching. In December 2014 during the parliamentary discussion on The Budget Proposal, Institute Alternative has referred to the Ministry of Finance with an…

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Accountable public finances

More Precise Reporting on Procurement is Needed

Commentary of the Institute alternative on the Report of work of the Coordinating Body for Monitoring and Implementation of the Strategy for Development of the Public Procurement System for IV quarter of 2014 General remarks When it comes to the development of the public procurement system, the Report is focused on general subjects instead of…

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Accountable public finances

Press release: Open Up the Budget Data

We appeal to the Ministry of Finance to improve the transparency of the national budget by implementing the practice of budgetary data in the form that would allow the data processing and searching. In December 2014 during the parliamentary discussion on The Budget Proposal, Institute Alternative has referred to the Ministry of Finance with an…

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Accountable public finances

SAI and Criminal Charges

During the meeting with state auditors and civil society held last week, one of the key issues raised was whether the State Audit Institution (SAI) should file criminal charges and why that hasn’t been done in their thus far. The reports of SAI list numerous irregularities and illegalities in the field of managing the public…

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Public policy school

IA donated books to the Faculty of the Political Science

As a research institute, we prepare and publish publications of importance for the students and academia, so we wanted to offer the analysis of the key elements of public policy from the perspectives of different scientific disciplines with our collection of papers “Public Policy”. This collection was the result of our programme” Public Policy School”,…

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