Public administration reform

Draft Law on State Administration: Less Control and Transparency

Current Draft Law on State Administration removes obligations of the state administration towards the Parliament, thus limiting its control function; the Draft is not harmonised with a number of other regulations. In our comments provided during the public discussion, we warned of the inconsistency of the proposed solutions with Rules of Procedure of the Parliament…

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Other, Public administration reform

Government Hiding the Dynamic Plan

Despite the Government’s persistent boasting about participation of civil society in Montenegrin negotiations, it continues to create parallel negotiating structure and parallel documents besides those already in force, excluding NGOs from its preparation and monitoring. Having established the Council for Rule of Law as a parallel structure to the Working Groups for Chapters 23 and…

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Accountable public finances, Public administration reform

Municipalities To Open Its Budgets For Citizens

A third of Montenegrin municipalities do not report on citizens’ participation in public discussions on their budgets; available data show that citizens generally did not participate in budget discussions for this year, with the exception of the municipalities of Bar, Plav and Žabljak. There were no citizens at public discussion on local budgets for 2018…

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Public administration reform

Procrastination and Repetition of Procedures: Main Enemy of Citizen-Centric Administration

Without systematic monitoring of administrative procedures and disputes, we don’t know to what extent the fight against main enemies of citizen-centric administration will be effective, said Milena Milošević at today’s panel discussion. The panel discussion named “Citizen-Centric Public Administration” was organised by the United Nations Development Programme in Montenegro and the Ministry of Public Administration…

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Accountable public finances, EU accession negotiations, Public administration reform

Public-Private Partnerships and Concessions

Proposed Solutions Carry Corruption Risk Exclusion of public-private partnerships of low value from the Law and the establishment of two registers for public-private partnerships, instead of one in which all data would be available, as well as the wide range of reasons for avoiding public call for concessions, does not give confidence that the proposed…

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Rule of law

Institute Alternative in Belfast: Monitoring Public Assemblies

Aleksandra Vavić and Ivana Bogojević, Public Policy Researchers at the Institute Alternative, participated in a training on observing of public assemblies, held in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The training was organized by the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL) in the framework of the project “Monitoring Right To Free Assembly”, which aims to assess the environment…

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Public administration reform

Why We Are Against the Proposed “Optimization” of Public Administration

Stevo Muk, a representative of Institute Alternative in the Inter-Departmental expert team, voted against the Draft Optimization Plan for Public Administration in Montenegro for the period 2018-2020. The Draft Public Administration Optimization Plan is largely based on restricting employment until March 1st 2019,   non-extension of fixed-term contracts, retirement of employees who meet conditions, mutually agreed…

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EU accession negotiations, Parliamentary program, Public administration reform

TV Show “Reflector”

Decision of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption and Dismissal of Ćalović Marković – continuation of the fight against Government critics? Ana Đurnić, Public Policy Researcher in IA, was a guest in the TV Vijesti Show “Reflector”. The topic was “APC decision and dismissal Ćalović Marković – continuation of the fight against those with…

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Public administration reform, Rule of law

Announcement: Police – Integrated Body, Yes or No?

Institute Alternative is organizing a panel discussion with the topic on “Police – Integrated Body, Yes or No?” which will take place in Hotel Podgorica, Montenegro, on 14 of June at 11 AM. The topics of the discussion are following: What are the key advantages and disadvantages of the concept of “integrated bodies”? What are…

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EU accession negotiations, Public administration reform, Rule of law

IA Representative at the Conference in Skopje

“Chapter 23 – Pandora’s Box or Key for Good Governance?” Public Policy Researcher at the Institute Alternative, Ana Đurnić, spoke about the effects of the establishment of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption in Montenegro at the conference “Chapter 23 – Pandora’s Box or Key for Good Governance?”. The conference was organized by the…

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Accountable public finances, EU accession negotiations

Government’s Relentless Pursuit of Control over the Public Broadcaster

The discussion announced following the initiative for dismissal of Director General of RTCG, Andrijana Kadija, is a confirmation of DPS’s intention to regain absolute control over RTCG and stop its transformation into public broadcaster, despite warnings from the European Union. We remind that systemic, continuous and unprecedented attacks on RTCG began in December last year…

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Public administration reform

Our Administration: Transparent Interviews – Key to Integrity of Recruitment in Public Administration

In order to improve the undermined trust in recruitment procedures in public administration, we call on the Government to improve the transparency of conducting interviews with candidates for positions in the state administration and the local self-governments. Implementation of the new Law on Civil Servants and State Employees starts from 1st July, and it will…

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