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Social card – five years later
Within the framework of the “Social Card – five years later”, the Institute Alternative (IA) will examine the functioning of the social card system in Montenegro. Given that in January 2015, the information system of social care was introduced, the objective of social card is: directing financial benefits to those who really need help, increasing…
Apply Now – Small Grants Facility for Support for Civil Society Monitoring of PAR
WEBER – Western Balkans Enabling Project for Civil Society Monitoring of Public Administration Reform Project is seeking proposals for the implementation of the Small Grant Facility for Support for Civil Society Monitoring of Public Administration Reform at Local Level. The Call for proposals is in the total amount of 255.000 EUR intended to support 30…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Defender of the state budget, but the last on the Government’s agenda: Forgotten Protector
In 2017, the Parliament, the Government and the Ministry of Finance should address better the legal regulation of the position of Protector of legal and property interests, the institution responsible for representing state interests. In our policy brief “Public finances and the Accountability of the Administration: What does the Protector protect?”, produced with the financial…
While expecting tangible results of the Public Administration Reform: Enhancing civil society monitoring
Six months after the start of implementation of Public Administration Reform Strategy, Institute Alternative, together with partners and representatives of the administration, has been working on improvement of the methodology for monitoring this reform, which is crucial for our progress in European integration, depolitization of the society and prevention of the public resources abuse. Improved…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Agency for Prevention of Corruption to provide information on public officials
For more than three months now, the Agency refuses to provide us with a list of all public officials in Montenegro and a list of public officials who gave consent to the Agency to check their bank accounts, as well as the copies of those consents. Also, the Agency has not provided us with a…
Ministries score high for labor disputes costs, but accounts for lost millions are lacking
While the Government is implementing austerity measures by reducing social welfare, for lost judicial and labor disputes, it paid 71 million euros in the last four years. Regardless of these high costs, competent authorities do not bear consequences for mistakes and non-compliance with their contractual and legal obligations. “The fact that tax payers paid more…
IA on Freedom of Assembly in Montenegro at the OSCE roundtable
Representative of Institute Alternative, Ivana Bogojevic, has participated in a roundtable on monitoring of public assemblies, organised by OSCE, ODIHR – Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Roundtable was held in Vienna, from 14th till 15th December, followed by presentation of the Third Report on Monitoring of Freedom of Peaceful Assembly in selected OSCE…
Property Checking of Police Officers
TV Vijesti/Svetlana Đokić While the debate about whether some police officers in Montenegro are on the mafia’s payroll has been heating up, Vijesti, a Montenegrin daily newspaper and television, asked the Agency for Prevention of Corruption for the right to access the official records about what Agency had detected by cross-checking for inconsistencies between the…
Announcement: A step closer towards sustainable and good public policy
During the award ceremony, Stevo Muk, the president of the Managing Board of Institute alternative, expressed his satisfaction considering that the participants were some 100 representatives of different sectors, mostly young people from state administration, as well as NGOs who sucessfully completed this training. This is the fifth time that Institute Alternative is organising the…
NGOs urge for permanent sustainable solution for the engagement of teaching assistants
GOVERNMENT OF MONTENEGRO PRIME MINISTER Mr. Duško Marković MINISTER OF EDUCATION Mr. Damir Šehović MINISTER OF LABOR AND SOCIAL WELFARE Mr. Kemal Purišić Subject: Permanent and sustainable solution for the engagement of teaching assistants Dear Mr. Prime Minister, Dear Ministers, We support the decision of the Ministry of Education to pay out teaching assistants that…
Call for Application to NGOs for joining Our Administration network
Institute Alternative invites all interested non-governmental organizations to join the network “Our administration”. Members of the network “Our administration” now make following NGOs: Institute Alternative, Bonum, Natura, New Horizon and the Center for Investigative Reporting. The objective of the network is independent monitoring of public administration reform and strengthening of Montenegrin civil society to participate…
Letter of the members of the Council for the Development of NGOs to the President of the Government, Duško Marković
Ten members of the Council for the Development of NGOs addressed a letter to the President of the Government, Duško Marković. The letter was also signed by Stevo Muk, the President of the Managing Board of Institute Alternative. Mr Prime Minister, We adress this letter to you as members of the Council for Development of…