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Parliamentary program, Rule of law
MPs do not care about the reports on crime
Directors render accounts, but no one is controlling them Although the Police Administration directors have regularly sent, with short delays, semi-annual reports in the area of corruption and organised crime since 2018, the Parliamentary Security and Defence Committee considered only one. This is written in the documentation submitted to the Institute Alternative, which asked the…
Institute Alternative Turns 15!
Institute Alternative (IA) has remained committed to its mission of strengthening democracy and good governance through research and policy analysis. During fifteen years since its establishment, the IA has launched and implemented 105 projects aimed at reforms of public administration and judiciary, enhancement of transparency and accountability of public finances, parliamentary oversight, better social policy…
The Government continues to violate the principles of good governance with its arbitrary dismissals
The Government’s intention to replace the entire managerial staff due to the terminological changes in names and minor adjustments to the scope of work of independent administrative bodies has no basis in the legal framework and is contrary to all the standards of good governance. Cosmetic changes of the Regulation on the Organisation and Method…
The initiative of 17 NGOS for Montenegro to ratify Protocol 16 to the European Convention
Today, 17 NGOs sent the Initiative to the President of the Parliament of Montenegro, Danijela Đurović, to put on the agenda as soon as possible the Proposal of the Government of Montenegro from 6 June 2022 for ratification of Protocol 16 to the European Convention for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Ratification of the Protocol will enable…
WeBER 2.0: Two-day conference in Tirana
Responsible public administration as the basis of well-functioning state A two-day conference on public administration reform (PAR), institutional integrity, accountability, and public trust in institutions was held in Tirana on the 7th and 8th of June, bringing together government officials and civil society from across the Western Balkans. The conference titled “Pursuing integrity-driven and sustainable public…
Will Montenegro be ready to start closing negotiating chapters by the end of the year?
Montenegro is close to receiving the closing benchmarks for chapters 23 and 24, Dritan Abazović said last week during the Prime Minister’s question time in the Assembly of Montenegro. Recently, in Brussels, he claimed that this can be done by the end of this year. “I am sure that there is great optimism for Montenegro…
Accountable public finances, EU accession negotiations, Public administration reform
Amendments to the Public Procurement Law lack reform impetus
The Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Public Procurement is making steps towards simplifying procedures and clarifying legal provisions that could and/or have been so far subject to different interpretations in use. While praising such procedural improvements, we note that these amendments lack reform zest, for which we have also seen the need…
While Affairs Pile Up, Parliament Needs to Step In
We have sent proposals to MPs to intensify oversight activities, reminding them that most of the committees have not yet adopted annual activity plans, while they failed to discuss important reports, including the semi-annual report of the police director on the fight against organised crime. Reiterating the relevance of our last year’s proposals, we pointed…
Gender Mainstreaming of Strategic Planning Training Organized
In order to bring the process of gender mainstreaming closer to civil servants working on the design and implementation of strategic planning, on April 8 in Kolašin, we held a training ”Strategic Planning for Gender Equality”. Project Coordinator, Nikoleta Pavićević, said that the training was intended primarily for officials who attended the Education Program for…
Gender Mainstreaming of IPA Programming Training Organized
Institut Alternative held a Training on Gender Mainstreaming of IPA Programming and strenghtened capacities of 20 civil servants, as well as representatives of civil society organizations Co-financed by the European Union Co-financed by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency Institut Alternative organized a Training on Gender Mainstreaming of IPA (Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance) Programming and…
Ministry to Enable Inclusive Policy-Making Process
In order to make a more inclusive process of creating laws and strategies, it is necessary to expand the platform for the participation of public and civil society through the amendments of the Decree on the election of NGO representatives to the working bodies of state administration. The Institute Alternative has sent an initiative to…
Parliamentary Committees to Re-Launch their Work
The work of parliamentary committees is not conditioned by the dynamics of plenary sessions and we point out that it is especially important that parliamentary committees initiate comprehensive discussion of acts that are in the parliamentary procedure. All working bodies have been passive in the period when disagreements on how to end the current political…