Accountable public finances

Duplication instead of upgrading – the role of UNDP in Montenegro

UNDP and the Ministry of Finance have created a local finance portal – which is similar in purpose, appearance and way of presenting data to our portal on local budgets, My City, published in 2013. If a different presentation had not already been made, it would have been more rational to continue working on My…

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Public administration reform

Judges of the Constitutional Court to Resign

On the occasion of the decision of the Constitutional Court by which that court revoked as unconstitutional its previous decision on the election of Judge Desanka Lopičić to the position of “presiding judge”, NGOs Human Rights Action (HRA), Center for Civil Liberties (CEGAS), European Association for Law and Finance Association (EALF), Institute Alternative (IA), Institute…

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Public administration reform

IA and HRA: Appeal to Urgently Provide the Right to Public Gatherings

Non-governmental organisations Human Rights Action (HRA) and the Institute Alternative (IA) requested from the current Minister of Health, Mr. Kenan Hrapović, who chairs the National Coordination Body for Communicable Diseases (NCB), to urgently amend the order banning public gatherings, in order to provide citizens the right to protest in a way that does not undermine…

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Public administration reform

President of the Parliament Welcomes the Continuation of Cooperation with IA

President of the Parliament of Montenegro Aleksa Bečić today met representatives of the Institute Alternative – Stevo Muk, President of Managing Board, Milena Muk and Marko Sošić, public policy researchers. Bearing in mind many-year long cooperation between the Parliament of Montenegro and the Institute Alternative, President Bečić expressed conviction that the good practise would be continued…

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Accountable public finances, Public administration reform

Traces of Ministers in Suspicious Public Procurement (II)

Warm and safe – Bošković  From Pljevlja, through Nikšić and Podgorica, to Ulcinj and Budva, the business of two Nikšić companies which deal with the provision of security for property and individuals is connected with the former Minister of Defence and the positions he was in charge of. Former Minister of Defence Predrag Bošković is…

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Accountable public finances

Delivery of the Contract – After the Resignation

The contract that we could not obtain before, we received after Ms. Maraš resigned, and a new CEO was appointed (and we were persistent as well). Manager’s contract with Verica Maraš, which was extended for another 5 years in 2018 – available at: https://bit.ly/35oPtr4 We thank the new executive director, Mr. Vuković to whom we…

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