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WeBER 3.0 has officially begun
Western Balkan Enablers for Reforming Public Administrations – WeBER 3.0 project has begun on 1 February 2023 and will run until 31 July 2026. The Think for Europe – TEN Network (European Policy Institute – EPI Skopje, Institute for Democracy and Mediation – IDM Tirana, Insititute Alternative – IA Podgorica, Group for Legal and Political Studies – GLPS Pristina, Foreign Policy Initiative –…
Workshop on Staged Accession Model to the EU
A two-day workshop that brought together partners and experts from the region and Brussels was held this week, 30-31 January, in Belgrade, organised by European Policy Center (CEP). Representatives of the Institute Alternative, Milena Muk and Dragana Jaćimović, participated in the two-day workshop whose purpose was to discuss the policy papers produced within the initiative…
Video: Citizens’ testimonials on experience with public administration
What do the citizens of the Western Balkans say about their experiences with their public administrations? How different are these experiences from country to country, and what problems are shared by the entire region? We spoke to citizens on the subject – take a look at what they told us. This video is produced within…
Meeting of Public Procurement Watchdogs
On November 15 (Tuesday) Institute alternative organised a meeting within the project Public procurement under spotlight – Making Watchdogs Work!, with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Serbia and Montenegro within the MATRA Rule of Law program. The aim of this meeting was an exchange of ideas about the…
Third WeBER Regional “Citizens First” Conference
Admirim Aliti, Minister of Information Society and Administration, North Macedonia Belgrade, 8-9 November 2022 – “As WeBER, we have matured as of 2015 in the sense that we realised that as CSOs, we cannot speak without the voice of citizens. We drew a precious lesson from citizens’ consultations. We could be much more persuasive, and a…
The increased legislative initiative of MPs is not accompanied by a gender analysis of laws
Gender mainstreaming of public policies is not at a satisfactory level in Montenegro, the institutional framework in this area is still flawed, and the increased legislative initiative of MPs is accompanied neither by elaborate procedures for public participation nor by a gender analysis of laws. Our Nikoleta Pavićević pointed out the aforementioned today when she…