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There is no sufficient progress in gender-responsive budgeting
The recommendations for improving gender-responsive budgeting include, among other things, supporting spending units for better formulation of gender-responsive and transformative goals and indicators, as well as better control of reports on budget execution, with a focus on the results achieved. This was highlighted during the panel discussion ‘Program Budgeting through Gender Lens: What Have We…
NGOs submitted proposals and priorities for public administration reform
A meeting of the National Working Group for Public Administration Reform was held in Podgorica, attended by representatives of the civil society and the Ministry of Public Administration. At the meeting, discussions revolved around the 2024 priorities of the Ministry of Public Administration and proposals from representatives of non-governmental organisations for improving public administration reform.…
European Commission Report’s findings for 2023 as expected
Dragana Jaćimović, public policy researcher at the Institute Alternative, participated in an online discussion organised by the European Policy Centre (CEP) on the topic of the European Union (EU) enlargement package for 2023 and the very functioning of democratic institutions in the countries of the Western Balkans. The participants also discussed the recently published reports…
EU accession negotiations, Public administration reform
Political parties hold the key to unfreezing the road to the EU
In the annual report, the European Commission noted a lower average assessment of progress, recognised that only one recommendation was fully fulfilled within the fundamentals cluster, while the average assessment of readiness remained the same. The absence of effective political dialogue and constructive approach by political parties was particularly highlighted in this year’s report, with…
Discussing the repression of corruption in public procurement with the Police
Police efforts in cases concerning corruption in public procurement were discussed at the meeting – the first one in a series of meetings on the performance of repressive institutions in the fight against corruption in public procurement. On November 6, Institute Alternative (IA) organised a meeting attended by representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs…
Openly about the issues of internal auditors
The internal audit system still suffers from a lack of personnel, frequent misunderstanding of this institute by public sector managers, as well as insufficient coverage of the public sector by internal audit. These are some of the issues raised at the meeting with internal auditors in the public sector, which we organised on October 27th…