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How to Revive the Prosecution and Stop Abuses? – TV Show “Načisto”
How to revive the prosecution and stop abuses? – this was the topic of the Vijesti’s TV show “Načisto”, in which the guest was Stevo Muk, President of the Managing Board of IA. „I support the goals of this reform if those goals are, conditionally speaking, a radical reform of the Prosecutor’s Office that will…
MladiRini – New Regional Platform for Youth
On Friday, 5th February 2021, a new regional platform for youth from the Western Balkans – MladiRini was launched. www.mladirini.org Platform is created so that young people can surf through the abundance of content on various topics, find fact-checked information, interesting trivia and infographics, listen to podcasts, or watch and register for our events, and shape the…
Public Policies Often Ignore Women’s Needs and Gender Gap
Gender neutral laws are one of the main factors of perpetuating gender inequality in Montenegro. Laws that are supposed to be ‘’equal for all’’ ignore the inequality of women in many areas – it was the conclusion of today’s conference organised by the Institute Alternative. At the conference ‘’Gender Equality and Public Policies in Montenegro:…
Time for substantial reforms of public procurement in the security and defence sector
Author: PR Center Lack of control, strategic procurement planning, as well as lack of reporting are the main problems related to procurement in the security and defence sector. It is necessary to implement substantial reforms, proactive internal and external controls, as well as identify corrupt practices in this area. This is stated at the panel…
Procurement in the Security and Defence Sector: New “Game Rules”, Same Issues
Institute Alternative (IA) is organising the public discussion “Procurement in the security and defence sector: New “game rules”, same issues”, that will be held on February 3rd, starting at 10am, hotel Hilton (Princess Jelena Hall), During the panel discussion we will present a policy brief ‘’Procurement in the security and defence sector; New ‘game rules’’, same issues’’,…
EU accession negotiations, Public administration reform
EU Enlargement – a Moving Target that is Moving Farther and Farther Away
In 2020, none of the six countries of the Western Balkans has made progress in the process of European integration. It is true that they could have done more, but this still begs the question of whether the process itself “is working” if no one is making progress, and many countries have not been making…
Preparation of Government’s Work Programme for 2021 should be opened for citizens’ proposals
Institute Alternative has been recommending for years that Government’s Work Programme, as the most important act for determining the priorities of the Government’s work, should be opened for public’s suggestions. This recommendation is now actualised in a letter to the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Montenegro, Mr. Zdravko Krivokapić and…
Political Appointments of Top Managers Go Against Professionalisation Promises
The announcements of distribution of top and senior civil service positions are opposite to the previously declared opening of the administration, encouragement of the best candidates to get the jobs and the overall professionalisation of state administration. Institute Alternative has previously pointed out that bidding by names and party affiliation when filling managerial positions, especially…
Strong Budgetary Inspection in Three Steps
During the entire mandate of the former Government, workplaces in the Budgetary inspection were vacant. Even when the inspection was functioning, it did not have good results – it did not file misdemeanour charges nor was the data about its work available to the public (minutes were marked as INTERNAL). Budgetary inspection could play the…
To Defend Freedom on Social Media but also to Increase Accountability
The right to freedom of expression in democratic societies should be restricted only when there is an urgent need for it and this restriction should be the exception. In Montenegro there is no law that regulate area of social networks, but that does not mean that citizens are not sanctioned, sometimes justifiably, sometimes unjustifiably, for…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Local Finances, Optimisation and Covid19
Old question – Do municipalities exist to provide services to citizens or for some people there to receive salaries and parties to buy votes? The answer was sought in the Relfektor show on TV Vijesti, where Marko Sošić was a guest. There were interesting things, for example: How did the Municipality of Pljevlja functioned “quite…
Conclusions from the Consultative Meeting „Young online“
Institute Alternative (IA) organised consultative meeting with young people from Montenegro. Meeting was organised within the project “Make Future Together: EU and the Western Balkans from the Youth Perspective”. The topic of the today’s “Young online” meeting was social networks, as well as freedom of expression in the Internet. More than fifteen young people –…