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Transparency and accountability of municipalities needs to be strengthened
At a session of the Public Administration Reform Council, on November 30th , Stevo Muk, president of the managing board at Institute Alternative (IA), suggested additional improvements to the draft Law on Local Government Financing. IA took part in the public debate on the Draft Law on Local Government Financing, by submitting 20 proposals for…
Money Watch Small Grants: Administrative check results date – 30 November
We hereby inform civil society organisations which applied to our Call for Proposals – Small Grants Facility within the project “Money Watch – Civil Society Guarding the Budget”, that we will inform them on the administrative check results on 30 November, 2018. Institute Alternative Team
The first Open Budget School organized
The IA organized an ”Open Budget School”, during which participants gained knowledge about the fundamentals of the budget system, transparency of public procurement, capital projects and public companies, and received guidelines for participation in the budget cycle. The school aimed at strengthening the role of civil society in the control of public finances and inducing…
Accountable public finances, Rule of law
Procurement for Security Sector in the Legal Vacuum Until 2020
By the end of this year, the new Law on Public Procurement will be discussed in the Parliament, and the Decree which will regulate procurement in the security sector will only apply from 2020. “We have received the opinion of the European Commission on the Draft of the new Law on Public Procurement on November…
Accountable public finances, Rule of law
Panel discussion: Towards better regulation of security and defence procurement
We are organising a panel discussion ”Towards better regulation of public and confidential procurement in the security and defence sector”, on Friday, 16 November, 2018, at the PR Centre, starting at 11am. The panel discussion will focus on public and confidential procurement in the Ministry of Interior and the Police Administration, which spent over 50…
Money Watch Small Grants Facility – Extended Deadline for Applications!
We inform the interested CSOs that the application deadline for the Small Grants Facility within the project “Money Watch – Civil Society Guarding the Budget” has been extended until 20 November 2018. Complete applications should be sent to e-mail: info@institut-alternativa.org . CSOs which have already submitted their project proposal and full application are not obliged to do it again.…
Clarifications – Money Watch Call for Proposals
Within the Call for Proposals for Small Grants Facility within our project Money Watch – Civil Society Guarding the Budget, we have received the following question: Q: Are there any restrictions for the sub-grantees supported within the ReLOaD project, to apply for this Call for Proposals under CSF 2016 Programme? A: No. CSOs whose projects have…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Proposals for the SAI Audit Plan
State Audit Institution is currently preparing an audit plan for the next year. SAI is independent and free to choose audits as it wants, but that doesn’t mean they can not get suggestions from others. SAI may audit not only individual institutions but also certain policies, such as collecting of fees for forest concessions or…
Public administration reform, Rule of law
Citizens believe that the fight against the corruption in police is ineffective
PR Press service, Podgorica – Despite a stable trust in police, citizens believe that the state is insufficiently effective in fighting corruption, according to the Institute alternative’s research. Ipsos Strategic Marketing conducted a field research in September of this year, for the needs of Institute alternative, on a sample of 1,013 adult citizens of Montenegro.…
Irrational spending? Montenegro is going to spend 18 million euro on medical supplies
For almost three decades, since Health Fund has operated, only once – at the request of the Ministry of health, this institution asked for the list of medical supplies in hospital stocks. In 2016 the list indicated that there is a lot of unnecessary spending in Montenegrin healthcare. The Minister of health at that time,…
Accountable public finances, EU accession negotiations
Ministry of Finance hides EC’s Opinion on the Draft Law on Public-Private Partnership
Ministry of Finance claims that it does not possess the European Commission’s (EC) Opinion on the Draft Law on Public Private Partnership (PPPs), although it states in another document that it obtained the Opinion in July this year. Acting upon our request for free access to information submitted on 15 September 2018, Ministry of Finance…
EU accession negotiations, Public administration reform, Rule of law
Materials for Council’s sessions to be published in advance
Agency for Prevention of Corruption does not publish materials for the Council’s sessions in advance, thus further disabling interested public to participate in this body’s work. The Agency did not publish the Third Quarterly Performance Report for 2018 nor the Proposal of the Rulebook on internal organisation and systematisation, which are to be discussed at…