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“My Adminstration” for obstacles in exercising citizens’ rights
Institute Alternative (IA) has upgraded its website which enables citizens to report problems and obstacles in exercising their rights before public administration. Website www.mojauprava.me has been upgraded within the project “Civil society for Good Governance: To Act and Account!”, with the financial assistance of the European union (EU). The website kept its main, interactive component,…
Final lectures within Public Policy School held in Budva
The fourth module of the Public Policy School on “The process of policy-making” and the fifth module on “Writing effective policy papers” were held at HEC Residence in Milocer, from 9 to 12 of December 2016. On the first day in Milocer within the IV module, a lecture on Academic vs. Public Policy writing was…
Ministry of Interior Failed In Encouraging Citizens to Report Crimes Committed By Police Officers
The Ministry of Interior of Montenegro have not conducted a sufficient number of activities in encouraging citizens to report crimes committed by police officers, especially corruption-related offences. Institute Alternative (IA) organized a presentation of its research “Assessment of Police Integrity in Montenegro” in PR Centre on 13 December 2016. The research deals with the issues…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform, Rule of law
IA researchers learned from Hungarian think tanks
Institute alternative public policy researchers, Ana Đurnić and Milica Ražnatović, visited think tank organizations in Budapest in order to exchange experiences and establish cooperation with organizations dealing with public policy research in Hungary. Within the study visit, organized from 27 November to 2 December 2016, Institute Alternative researchers had the opportunity to meet with the…
Meeting with EU representatives: Provide more visible support to civil society
Stevo Muk, President of the Managing Board of IA, has met with Director for Western Balkans in DG NEAR, Genoveva Ruiz Calavera, and ambassador Aivo Orav, Head of Delegation of European Union to Montenegro. President of the Managing Board of IA has pointed out the need for improvement the transparency of the negotiation process, through…
TV show “Okvir”
Stevo Muk, President of the Managing Board of the Institute Alternative, was a guest on the show “Okvir”, hosted by Zoran Lekovic, airing on public broadcasting service (RTCG). The topic of the show were the priorities of a newly-formed Government of Montenegro. In addition to Stevo, guests were Srđan Vukadinovic, a sociologist, Đorđije Blažić, Dean…
How to achieve excellence through regional cooperation?
The concept for the future Centre for Excellence in Public Policy in the Western Balkans – CEPS WeB, was presented on 24 November in Belgrade. Institute Alternative is participating in its establishment as well. Our partner European Policy Centre (EPC) from Belgrade organised a panel discussion on “Achieving Excellence through regional cooperation”,in cooperation with five…
IA comments on the Draft Budget for 2017 of the Capital City Podgorica
Institute alternative delivered its recommendations for more transparent budget presentation in 2017. Our suggestions concern the manner in which budget data are represented n the Draft Budget of the Capital City and the following justification. Some of the recommendations strongly point out the need for understandible presentation of budget expenses and real needs of the…
Blog, Public administration reform
Old and New Government
We all know that state administration is composed of sixty-five organs out which sixteen of them are ministries. We also know that ministries perform complex tasks of proposing internal and foreign policy, leading policy development, normative activities, administrative oversight etc. So who and how decides on the number of ministries and their names? Simple answer…
Amendments of the budget – what actually happened and who is responsible?
During a 30 minute parlimentary discussion, when the rebalance of the budget for 2016. was adopted, the key weakest link that caused the necessity for amendements to the law on the budget was the so-called “compensation for mothers“. The representatives of the Ministry of Finance have accused the MPs for adopting the amendements of the…
Lectures within the 3rd module of Fifth Generation of Public Policy School held
Lectures within the 3rd module of the 2016 Public Policy School were held on Friday and Saturday, 25 and 26 November in Podgorica. The lecture entitled “Evaluation of Public Policies” was presented by Dragisa Mijacic, Executive Director of Institute for Territorial Economic Development (InTER) from Serbia. Fundamentals of public policies and the public policy cycle…
WeBER Platform officially established
The WeBER Platform was officially established on the occasion of the 9th Annual Conference of the Regional School of Public Administration (ReSPA), on November 16, 2016 in Podgorica. The Memorandum of Cooperation regarding the functioning of the WeBER Platform was signed by 22 civil society organizations (CSOs) from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro…