Public administration reform

Reforms in Rule of Law Area: What Is Yet To Be Done

Answers of our Dina Bajramspahić to DN ”Vijesti” questions regarding: current situation in judiciary, difficulties to reach an agreement and achieve qualified majority, announced voluntary resignations of the heads of the judiciary, blockade of the Judicial Council and Constitutional Court. First of all, let me just say that the announcements of the resignations of certain…

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Public administration reform

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.…

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Public administration reform

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…

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Public administration reform

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…

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Public administration reform

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…

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Public administration reform

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…

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