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The candidate of the Civic Alliance appointed unlawfully and against the will of NGOs
The Administrative Committee has again violated the law and acted despite the majority will of NGOs We are disappointed by the decision of the Administrative Committee to propose the appointment of another representative of the NGO “Civic Alliance” as a member of the Council of the Agency for Electronic Media (AEM), by discriminating the candidate…
Initiative: State should not charge access to regulations
Institute Alternative sent an initiative to the Government and the Official Gazette to allow free access to final (consolidated) texts of regulations for all citizens. Citizens do not have free access to the official database of consolidated texts of regulations of the Official Gazette. According to the Law on publication of regulations and other documents,…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
SELDI Policy Workshop: Strengthening Resilience to Corruption and State Capture in Southeast Europe
SELDI Network (network of organizations involved in countering corruption in South East Europe), organised on 14 June 2016 in Brussels a policy workshop on Strengthening Resilience to Corruption and State Capture in Southeast Europe, to discuss with regional partners and European Commission (EC) representatives key anti-corruption institutions in SEE countries – their activities, capacities, mechanisms…
TV Show: Participation of citizens and NGOs in public administration reform
President of the Managing Board of Institute Alternative, Stevo Muk, was a guest on the show Club A on Atlas TV. The topic of the show was participation of citizens and NGOs in the preparation of key strategic and policy documents, focusing on the Public Administration Reform Strategy. IA, as he said, researches the topic…
IA Initiative to the Minister of Interior: Fully implement the reform of the civil service system
Institut Alternative (IA) today submitted an initiative to the Minister of Interior, Mr Goran Danilović, aimed at improving Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Civil Servants and State Employees, which keeps problematic legal solutions and prevents establishing of merit based system in state authorities. Work on amending the Law on Civil Servants and…
RESPONSE: Proposal of the profit distribution of the company ’’Monteput’’ is unjust and irrational
Proposal of the Minister of Transport and Maritime Affairs for the distribution of the net profit of the company ’’Monteput’’ is unjust and irrational, which means that the Government must take into account the opinion of Ministry of Finance, reject the proposal and transfer the overall income to the Chief Treasury Account. The proposal foresees…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Press release: Who is actually protected by the Protector?
After several attempts, we were obstructed in getting basic information about the work of the Protector of Property and Legal interests of Montenegro in the last six years From the state organ which protects legal and property interest of the state, and indirectly citizens’ interests, it is impossible to gain information on some of key…
IA at the conference in Pristina: From civil society without citizens to civil society of citizens
Only a limited number of non-governmental organizations uses mechanisms for citizens’ participation in creating public policies in Montenegro, said Stevo Muk, president of the Managing Board of the Institute Alternative (IA), at a regional conference on public administration reform, held in Pristina. Conference “Role of Civil Society in Public Administration Reform – EU Standards and…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Transparency should prevent the misuse of the institutions for electoral purposes
Centre for Civic Education (CCE), Institute Alternative (IA) and Network for Affirmation of Non-governmental sector (MANS) defined the set of information which every public sector body should post proactively on 15 every days at their websites. The objective of this precisely focused initiative is to reduce the space for potential misuse of public sector bodies…
Public Sector Reform: To Make Their Administration Ours Too
Even though it is difficult to determine in practice whether a person was employed based on their party affiliation, citizens most often complain of the Head of authorities’ arbitrariness during election of candidates for a certain government job position. The President of the Managing Board of Institute Alternative (IA) Stevo Muk said in an interview…
Procurement in state administration in figures
In 2014, state authorities have spent 52 994 714, 56 euro. The Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism had the largest completed budget for public procurement in 2014 – 23 278 015, 51 euro and The Secretariat for Development Projects had the lowest one – 16 740,60 euro. The total amount of 14 state authorities…
Parliamentary program, Public administration reform, Rule of law
TV Show Replika
President of our Managing Board, Stevo Muk, was a guest in a TV Show “Replika”, airing on public broadcasting service. The show was dedicated to the Law on the implementation of the Agreement on Free and Fair elections. The guests discussed the new composition of the Government, which now includes representatives of the opposition, the…