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About Public Administration Employment for CIN-CG
Official data is quite conservative, and its reliability is questionable, but it shows a steady trend of increasing public sector employment. It is important to emphasise that there is no unified record of the number of employees in state and local government owned enterprises. The downside of all this is flawed hiring procedures and a…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
IA Proposals for SAI’s Annual Audit Plan for 2025
The State Audit Institution (SAI) has continued its positive practice for the second consecutive year, inviting civil society, the academic community, and professional associations to submit proposals for the annual audit plan for the coming year. We would like to remind that last year, the SAI accepted one of the three proposals we submitted, and…
The Government Forgot About the State Property Inspection
The State Property Inspection has not conducted a single inspection in the past year, and in the meantime, the inspection body has been left without inspectors, as they have been reassigned to other positions or their mandates have expired. The State Property Inspection has not been operational since October 2023. Following amendments to a government…
Eight Months from Initiative to Hearing: The Committee Finally Reviewed the SAI Report on CEDIS
Eight months after submitting the initiative, the Committee for Economy, Finance, and Budget finally conducted a control hearing of the head of the Montenegrin Electric Distribution System (CEDIS), the Montenegrin Electric Power Company (EPCG), the Minister of Energy, and members of the Senate of the State Audit Institution (SAI) on the financial state and operations…
IA’s Initiative For a Joint Hearing on Hold For Five Months
For nearly five months, we have been waiting for the parliamentary committees on economy and health to act on our initiative for holding a joint hearing on the topic of public procurement in healthcare. Despite the fact that the initiative, submitted by Institute Alternative on May 10th this year, was initially accepted by both parliamentary…
Parliamentary Dimension of the Berlin Process at the Bundestag
The German Bundestag hosted the event “Parliamentary Dimension of the Berlin Process,” held on October 9 in Berlin. The event, supported by the German Federal Foreign Office, was organised by the Institute for Democracy “Societas Civilis” from Skopje, in cooperation with Institute Alternative and other partner organisations from the region. The event brought together MPs…