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Presenting the results of the public opinion survey “What do citizens think about the police – In the service of citizens or someone else?”
The Institute Alternative and the regional network of CSOs POINTPULSE are organizing a presentation of the results of the survey “What do citizens think about the police – in the service of citizens or someone else?”, which will be held at the PR Center on September 14, 2017, starting at 11:00. The focus of the…
The Capital City one of the leaders in poor public procurement planning
The Capital City has been one of the leaders in poor public procurement planning for years, as it mostly copies the same plan year after year, retaining the same planned sum of about four million euros, although it has not spent that amount in any of the past years. Irrational planning, frequent amendments and non-realization…
While public procurement are irrationally planned, the real citizens’ needs are “on hold”
Irrational planning, frequent amendments and non-realization of plans are some of the central problems in the public procurement system. In 2016, large differences were observed in the planned and spent budget for public procurement for certain categories of contracting authorities, whereas the data on the total difference between planned and spent money for public procurement…
Comments of the Institute Alternative to the Draft Law on Civil Servants and State Employees
The current Draft Law on Civil Servants and State Employees incorporates certain solutions that follow Institute Alternative’s earlier suggestions, especially with regard to the explicit recognition of heads of state authorities as a category within the civil service system (See: Professionalization of Senior Civil Service in Montenegro: Between State and Politics, Institute Alternative, Podgorica, November…
Institute Alternative comments on the Draft Law on Local Self-Government
The current Draft Law on Local Self-Government makes certain improvements, especially related to the professionalization of the heads of local administration bodies and chief administrators. Also, it is commendable that some of our earlier suggestions, such as the consideration of the reports of the State Audit Institution by the Municipal Assembly, have been adopted. However,…
Press release: DPS’ Final Attack on the State Audit Institution
Remaining State Audit Institution (SAI) Senate members have been appointed, but this was carried out with political attack on the independence and integrity of the institution. Institute Alternative has been advocating for years for appointment of remaining SAI Senate members, as well as for the more active role of the Parliamentary Committee in regard to…
Public finances – the key challenge of local self-government reform
It is difficult to determine the optimal number of employees at a local level, while on the other hand, the high level of employment in municipalities is a burden on public finances, it was noted at the conference today The conference “Public Administration Reform – For Equitable Regional Development and Quality Services” was held in…
Seven Months without Establishing Responsibility for Possible Abuse of Power
The system for establishing accountability in the Ministry of Interior in Montenegro is completely ineffective in fighting alleged abuse of power by police officers. Seven months have passed since the media reported that two disciplinary proceedings have been initiated against police officer D. D. for gross negligence in the line of duty. Institute Alternative has…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Infographics: Poor participation of citizens in debates about local budgets
Below you will find an infographics on number of citizens in Montenegro participating in public debates on the budgets of local governments for 2017 (only in Montenegrin)
(mne) Infografik: Javne nabavke za građane
Below you can see the infographics on the money spent on public procurement in 2016 as well as which were the companies made most profit out of it. (only in Montenegrin)
Press Release: Fifty companies earn about 250 million euro from public procurement
In 2016, 52 private companies earned more than a half of total amount spent on public procurement. On the other hand, 91.61% of the state budget for public procurement was spent by only 86 authorities, which makes 13.6% of total number of contracting authorities. In 2016, 616 state authorities, local self-governments, public institutions and state-owned…
Interview for FOS media on the acts of Special Prosecution
1. Do you consider symptomatic that so far several actions initiated by Katnic (Mandic, Radunovic, Medojevic), were simply stopped by the Higher State Prosecutor Ivica Stankovic? It cannot be said that they were stopped because only one of the series of actions foreseen in the criminal proceedings was halted. All other investigative measures and actions,…