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Civil servants’ accountability in the focus of Public Administration Reform
Accountability at all levels is a key concept for establishing good governance practices in the public administration of Montenegro, as concluded at the panel discussion on the priorities of public administration reform “The end goal of the public administration reform is to make citizens’ life easier, and this is something we all need to keep…
Administrative Inspectorate controlled only the opposition?
Although Ministry of Public Administration claims to build up capacities of the Administrative Inspectorate, opposition-run municipalities were disproportionately a subject of inspection oversight during the last year. The Administrative Inspectorate last year conducted supervision of 107 subjects, out of which 82 were in the bodies and services of the local administration and 25 in the…
Interactive Caviar
A full alignment with the European Court of Human Rights practice is still a commitment to be met by Montenegro. It is what has been consistently written in the progress reports as well as in the Report of the European Commission on Montenegro, published in November 2016. I am sure that the authors of this…
Administrative Committee to work in public interest, not for DPS
Urgent and coordinated action of Administrative Committee of the Parliament of Montenegro and Agency for Prevention of Corruption (APC), upon “anonymous” reports regarding potential conflict of interest of members of the RTCG Council, is raising our suspicion and concern that this is a politically-instructed action of both organs ordered by the ruling party, with an…
The Police misinform citizens on their rights
The Police Directorate has been misinforming the citizens about their rights during the conversation with the organizers of public assemblies, which is why Institute Alternative has filed an initiative to the Council for Civic Control of Police to further investigate this behavior From the analyzed sample of nearly 400 official notes on conversations conducted in…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Government recruiting without any plans ahead
Human resource (HR) planning should answer to the important questions regarding how much staff is necessary for our state administration and in which positions. However, in the first year of implementation of the Public Administration Reform Strategy, the Government failed to provide these answers. Half a year after the Government adopted a decision to urgently…
TV Show “Replika”: Organised Crime in Montenegro
Dina Bajramspahic, IA public policy researcher was a guest on a TV Show “Replika”, talking about the topic of fight against organised crime in Montenegro. Take a look at the TV show here.
Public statement on the session of the Public Administration Reform Council
The second session of the Public Administration Reform Council was held yesterday in Podgorica, in which I participated as a member, on behalf of the Institute Alternative I abstained from voting on the conclusions of the Council for the adoption of the Report on the Implementation of the PAR Strategy and Action Plan for the…
New “mass“ hirings in the run up to the elections
Today, The Ministry of Interior (MOI) published a public call for “Police Training” for 60 trainees that graduated from high school and are preparing for immediate employment in the Police – despite all the strategic documents adopted by the Government. Namely, Government documents (Strategy for Development of the Police Directorate, Action Plan for its implementation…
Citizens Unprepared to Report Police Corruption
Citizens trust the police, but consider it to be significantly corrupted. Their readiness to report police corruption cases is declining according to the research conducted for the third year in a row within the regional network POINTPULSE The results of the public opinion research on police in Montenegro was presented today in Podgorica by Institute…
Accountable public finances, Blog, Parliamentary program, Public administration reform, Public policy school, Rule of law, Social policy
All our Failures
We mark the tenth anniversary of the foundation of Institute alternative this month. We started from zero. It took us five years to become a relatively stable organization and it took us ten years to secure a place among the most active and most prominent organisations with 10 employees. It is very difficult to talk…
Anniversary of Institute Alternative: Our First Decade
We research public policy because public policy affects us During the ten years of its existence, Institute Alternative realised its ideas through 84 projects with the aim of creating preconditions for better governance, effective expenditure of citizens’ money, better control of executive authority and security services, as well as better parliamentary control. The results of…