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Press release: IA did the competent institutions’ job by publishing contracts on municipal debt reprogramming
Contracts on municipal debt reprogramming in Montenegro are not proactively published on the websites of the Ministry of Finance and local authorities; instead Institute Alternative had to pay in order to publish this important information on its website My town (Moj grad). Institute Alternative received contracts on municipal debt reprogramming for 16 municipalities in Montenegro…
Parliamentary program, Public administration reform
Press Release: Bill on Administrative Inspection finally in the Parliament
Institute Alternative welcomes putting on the Agenda of the Parliament of Montenegro the Bill on Administrative Inspection adopted by the Government in March 2015 and calls upon the MPs to improve the text of this law through amendment procedure. Taking into account the importance of this regulation for the legality, efficiency and effectiveness of the…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
What administration do we want by 2020: While waiting tangible results…
Instead of being at service of citizens and business, public administration is a burden to them – this is a message delivered by Institute Alternative at today’s conference in Podgorica. The conference was organized within the project “Civil Society for Good Governance: To Act and Account” with the support of the European Union, in cooperation…
Accountable public finances, EU accession negotiations, Parliamentary program, Public administration reform, Rule of law
MERLIN in Brussels – About the rule of law with the representatives of the EU
With the colleagues from the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy from Serbia and the European Policy Institute from Macedonia, we visited the EU institutions and talked to representatives of Brussels-based organizations and foundations dealing with the EU accession of the Western Balkans countries from 16 to 19 May 2016. The visit was organized by the…
IA representative at the conference on access to information in the digital era
IA’s Public Policy Researcher, Milica Milonjić, participated at the conference on Internet as commons and the new politics of commoning organized by the SHARE Foundation, with the support of Heinrich Boell Foundation, Institute for Political Ecology and Green European Foundation. The event took place from May 19-21, 2016, in Belgrade. The conference gathered more than…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Institutions covered by the Agreement on Free and Fair Elections to ensure full transparency of work and proactive disclosure of information
Centre for Civic Education (CCE), Institute Alternative (IA) and Network for the Affirmation of NGO sector (MANS) call all institutions, subjects of Agreement on Free and Fair Elections, to ensure full transparency of their work and to provide continuous and timely disclosure of all relevant information in their possession on their official websites. Also, we…
Announcement: Workshop “Media, NGOs and Good Governance”
Institute Alternative, together with its partners – Centre for Investigative Journalism and NGOs Bonum, Natura and Novi horizont, is organising a workshop that will gather representatives of civil society and the media. The workshop is organised within the project ”Civil Society for Good Governance: To Act and Account”, financed by the European Union within the…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
First five months of work of Agency for Prevention of Corruption
Large number of preconditions for full functionality of the Agency was not fulfilled in time, and certain problems in its establishing, to which Institute Alternative (IA) has been pointing during last and early this year, have not been solved even five months after the Agency began to work. We presented first five months of its…
First Regional Research Academy
Our public policy researcher, Milena Milošević, participated in the first RRPP Research Academy held from 11 to 18 April in Sarajevo. 35 young researchers from six countries of the region gained the opportunity to advance their knowledge in the field of social science research methodology. The Academy was organized by Center for Social Research Analitika…
Postponement of implementation of the Law on Administrative Procedure: Administration still alienated from the citizens
New postponement of the start of implementation of the Law on Administrative Procedure is putting the citizens a step away from a service-oriented administration, while they are still exposed to tedious procedures, which impede exercise of their rights. Firstly, the Law on Administrative Procedure was supposed to start with implementation in January this year. However,…
Parliamentary program, Rule of law
On reforms in security sector and Rule of law
What Montenegro gained, and what did it lose after achieving independence? When it comes to democratic and civic oversight of security sector and the rule of law, this decade was marked by major reform projects under the pressure of the Euro-Atlantic and European integration. It cannot be denied that a lot has been done at…
Press release: Online services instead of waiting in lines
On the occasion of the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, established by the United Nations and celebrated on May 17, we urge the Government to intensify its activities on the modernization of public administration and improvement of the quality of service delivery to citizens. Declaring this date under the resolution of the United Nations…