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Clarifications: WeBER 2.0 Small Grant Facility
Within regional WeBER 2.0 project, we published Call for proposals for the implementation of the Small Grant Facility for support to civil society monitoring of public administration reform at local level. The Call for proposals is in the total amount of 225.000 EUR. In Montenegro, four projects worth up to 8.000 EUR will be supported.…
Call for Graduates: Work and Learn with us
Institute Alternative (IA) created opportunity for five graduation students to make their first work experience dealing with public policies in our team of researchers. Professional Training Programme is designed for all graduates with no work experience in certain level of education, which are registered by Employment Agency of Montenegro. Programme lasts for nine months and…
Meeting with Director of the Agency for Prevention of Corruption
President of the Managing Board at the Institute Alternative (IA), Stevo Muk, and Ana Đurnić public policy researcher at Institute Alternative, held a meeting with Jelena Perović, the new Director of the Agency for Prevention of Corruption. IA representatives expressed their dissatisfaction with the decision making of the former management in cases that IA initiated…
Call for Applications: Training on Gender Sensitive Budgeting
Gender equality and public policies: Basics of gender sensitive budgeting Institute Alternative (IA) announces public call for online training on Gender sensitive budgeting Institute Alternative invites civil servants, decision-makers and representatives of civil society to apply for online training on gender sensitive budgeting. We especially encourage to apply for the training: representatives of the Parliamentary…
Discrimination in the MOI: Open Violation of Regulations
Opinion of the Ombudsman’s office on gender discrimination in the Ministry of the Interior is a display of frequent violation of regulations on civil service relations, abuse of temporary and occasional business contracts, distortion of the spirit of certain laws. Despite certain provisions which are good, these laws are not able to protect the rights…
Another protest of NGOs due to the coup in the Constitutional Court
Non-governmental organisations Human Rights Action (HRA), Centre for Civil Liberties (CEGAS), European Association for Law and Finance (EALF), Institute Alternative (IA), Institute for the Rule of Law (IVP) and the Network for Affirmation of the NGO Sector (MANS) protested because the Constitutional Court of Montenegro had not initiated the procedure of electing its president in…
TV Show Reflektor: Milena Muk on Post-Election Public Administration
Whether mass, post-election hirings in public administration has spiraled out of control, whether the incumbent Government is using the transition period to reward the loyal ones by hiring them in public administration and whether the new Government can review such decisions – these were just some of the topics of TV show Reflektor, broadcasted on…
Accountable public finances, EU accession negotiations, Parliamentary program, Public administration reform, Rule of law
European Commission: Montenegro Remained Average
As in the previous five years, based on the methodology of the European Commission, IA transformed the report’ assessments into numbers in order to see scores in a simpler way, and compare the situation with previous years. Although this is the first report of the new commissioner Várhelyi and his team, it does not differ…
Agency: IDF undermines Law on FOI
The Investment and Development Fund refused to provide even simplest information on their work, at our request based on free access to information. IA requested, among other documents, decisions of the directors board, act on internal organisation and systematisation, list of one-off assistances to individuals and legal entities, information on sponsorships and donations, and such,…
Training on Gender Mainstreaming of Public Policies Organised by IA
Institute alternative (IA) organised online training “Gender equality and Public policies: Basic of Gender Mainstreaming” for more than 40 decision-makers, civil servants and representatives of civil society. Key tools for introducing a gender perspective and gender mainstreaming, steps in gender analysis, ”traffic lights” from gender negative to gender transformative policy – are just some of…
Podcast, Public administration reform
Stevo Muk in the Podcast “European Talks”
Winds of change in Montenegro: What to expect in the next period? The recent elections in Montenegro suggest that major changes could soon take place in the country in the Western Balkans. Montenegro has opened all chapters in the process of negotiations with the EU, but how far has the enlargement process really progressed and…
Municipalities Must be Clearly Separated form Religious Communities
Sanctification of Municipality building in Budva can violate the constitutional principle of separation between religious communities and state, and put in an unequal position users of public services and employees in administrative bodies. Local self-government, regardless of the political parties that win the majority in local elections, should serve all citizens, regardless of their personal…