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Accountable public finances, Rule of law
Montenegrin citizens do not know what public procurement means
Survey results on public opinion showed that the number of citizens who do not know what is public procurement had almost doubled. Even 71% citizens explicitly stated that they did not know what public procurement meant and could not describe the term in a few words. Ana Đurnić, Public Policy Researcher at Institute Alternative (IA)…
Accountable public finances, EU accession negotiations
Public procurement 2019: Increasing spending, decreasing competitiveness
According to the latest 2019 Public Procurement Report issued by the Ministry of Finance, the competitiveness of public procurement procedures in Montenegro has never been lower. As a rule, low competition intensity means low quality of procured goods, works and services. When we add to that the highest recorder public procurement budget expenditure, the picture…
CSOs from Montenegro and Serbia call for the lowering of tensions
Candidates for the membership in the European Union should resolve the disputed issues in the spirit of regional cooperation, stated ten civil society organisations from Montenegro and Serbia, adding that it is necessary to urgently calm the tensions between the two countries. In a joint statement, CSOs pointed out that, at a time when leading…
Public Call for the Abolition or Reduction of the Measure which Bans Public Assemblies
Human Rights Action (HRA) and Institute Alternative (IA) call on the National Coordination Body (NKT) and the respected minister of health to abolish the ban on public assemblies in Montenegro. We think that amid abolishing many measures for suppression and prevention of spread of the new coronavirus, the need for banning public assemblies has ceased…
Who paid EUR12,935 to Zoran Jelić?
Below you can take a look at the infographic on the mysterious income of one of the members of the Senate of the State Audit Institution:
Joint Forces for Public Assemblies
Within the project ‘’Voice Your Rights! – Expanding Space for Free Assemblies” Institute Alternative (IA) supported four civil society organisations. Together with IA and Human Rights Action (HRA) they will monitor public assemblies in the next six months and work on expanding the space for activism. “At the time when we applied for the project,…
Four Mini Grants within the ‘’Voice Your Rights! – Expanding Space for Free Assemblies” project
International Women’s Day March, International Workers’ Day March, Pride Parade, environmental protests, political demonstrations, religious protests– are examples of public assemblies where citizens want to express their beliefs and demands to public authorities. Four more organisations have joined our efforts to improve freedom of public assembly in the upcoming period, with the support of the…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Governments in the WB still do not provide adequate information on their achievements
First results from PAR Monitor 2019/2020 In the policy development area, PAR Monitor 2019/2020 starts by focusing on the information available to citizens on governmental performance. Evidence shows that citizens of the Western Balkan countries, with the exception of BiH and to a lesser extent North Macedonia, do not have access to basic information about…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Proactive informing from public authorities is still at a low level in the Western Balkans
First results from PAR Monitor 2019/2020 Worrying trends in the limited proactive information made available to citizens of the Western Balkans by their governments, indicated in the baseline PAR Monitor 2017/2018, have shown little change. Although some online information is easily accessible in most of the countries included, limited open data practices and transparency in…
New Public Administration Reform Strategy Must be Made According to Citizen’s Needs
We called on Ministry of Public Administration to make the process of drafting the Public Administration Reform Strategy in Montenegro 2021-2025 participatory and transparent, pointed out shortcomings of the current Strategy and made recommendations for future improvement of it On what values and principles process of preparing a new Strategy should be based? The planning…
Summit EU Western Balkan – With or Without (E)U?
Our public policy researcher Dina Bajramspahić spoke at the ’’Virtual meeting: Western Balkans Shadow Summit – With or Without EU’’, which was held through a moderated Zoom meeting on Tuesday, May 5, 2020 at 12:00, on the topic of EU enlargement and Western Balkans. The aim of the conference meeting is to contribute to the…
CSO Declaration on Zagreb EU – Western Balkans Summit
Institute Alternative is one of the signatories of the CSO Declaration on Zagreb EU – Western Balkans Summit. Over 90 leading civil society organisations from the Western Balkans, as well from the EU member states, working on issues of fundamental rights and the rule of law, democratic institutions, civic engagement, environmental protection, combating corruption and…