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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…