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Accountable public finances, EU accession negotiations, Parliamentary program, Public administration reform, Rule of law
Interview for Monitor: We seem to be in a prolonged state of emergency
Interview with Stevo Muk, President of the Managing Board of Institute Alternative for weekly Monitor Institute Alternative has recently conducted a public opinion poll which has shown that problems within public administration are various. Nevertheless, it seems that the corruption and favouritism are burning issues. Would you say that it is only the follow-up of…
Conference: “Where Does Our Money Go? – Transparency and Accountability of the National Budget”
Within the project “Promoting financial accountability in Montenegro”, supported by the British Embassy in Podgorica, we have organised the conference “Where does our money go? – Transparency and accountability of the national budget” on March 27, 2017. At the conference, we presented our new web portal My money (www.mojnovac.me). The web portal contains visualisation and…
Public Opinion Poll: Average Grade for Services at the Local Level
Citizens mostly use municipal services, but they think that the quality of local administration services is not particularly good. According to the public opinion poll conducted by IPSOS agency for Institute Alternative, within our project “Civil Society for Good Governance: to Act and Account!“, citizens provided a 5 for municipal services, on a scale from…
Public administration reform, Rule of law
Press release: Speed up the police reform
The result of implementation of the Strategy of the Police Administration Development is far from satisfactory – more than 60% envisaged obligation is not fulfilled. At first sight, the strategy is comprehensive, since it envisages activities in key areas for the police service reform, such as fight against crime, citizens’ safety, fight against corruption and…
Public opinion survey: Public administration problems pile up, despite the moderate trust
Citizens think that employment irregularities, inefficiency and corruption are key problems of public administration. They recognize employment through private connections as the largest problem of the public administration. Every second citizen believes that this is only one of many problems (51%), while one in five believes that this is the biggest problem (22%). Recruitment based…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Press release: Agency to inform the public whether officials report and account for their income and assets
Institute Alternative (IA) submitted recommendations to the Agency for Prevention of Corruption which are primarily aimed at improving transparency of Agency’s activities, particularly the control of assets declarations of public officials and civil servants as well as outcomes of those controls. The reason is, primarily, poor visibility of the results of the Agency’s work during…
Interview: Politics Impede Reform Efforts
The government plans to reduce the number of public sector employees by 5,000 people, by 2020, while the political influence in public administration is unavoidable, as the key institutions – ministries are guided by political figures, said Milena Milošević, public policy researcher at the Institute alternative, in an interview with Daily ”DAN”. She warned that…
Accountable public finances, Blog
Open Data and Economy
#OpenDataDay The International Open Data Day is marked for the seventh time today on 4th of March. The idea is to promote the significance and the use of “unlocking“ the data worldwide and the necessity of adopting a politics of openness, not just by the governments and public institutions but also by private sector, civil…
Joint Appeal to the Parliament – Do not appoint Jelić as a member of the SAI Senate
Concerned over the developments related to the status of independent, supervisory institutions in Montenegro, with special emphasis on the state of affairs in the area of budgetary control, we address AN APPEAL TO THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT not to appoint Zoran Jelić as the member of Senate of State Audit Institution Zoran Jelić failed to…
A Farce in the Parliament
The Committee endorses Jelić and hides the documentation of candidates After almost seven years of waiting for the appointment of the missing member of the State Audit Institution’s (SAI) Senate, MPs in the Committee for Economy, Finance and Budget have unanimously and without representatives of the opposition, appointed Zoran Jelić for this position. Institute Alternative…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Opposition Defended the Public Interest, Whereas DPS Gave 3697 M2 to Three Privileged Ngos
We welcome the decision of 19 councillors of the opposition who have requested the dismissal of proposition regarding the ceding of 3697 m2 of urban land for the construction of the so called House of Civil Society from the agenda of yesterday’s session of Parliament of Capital City of Podgorica. This refers to the project…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Has the Government given up on OGP?
Montenegro is one of five countries that at least two years in a row act contrary to principles of Open Government Partnership (OGP). This is why Montenegrin participation in OGP is under review of Criteria and Standards Subcommittee that is working body of Steering Committee. Government of Montenegro was informed on 13 November 2016 by…