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Accountable public finances, Blog, EU accession negotiations, Parliamentary program, Public administration reform, Rule of law
Enforce the Agreement
MPs have the right to convey their messages in various ways, opposition MPs in particular, even in unusual, unconventional ways. However, the rest of the parliamentary performance last Friday was torturesome, violent, unnecessary, rude and inappropriate for our parliamentary life. MPs from Democratic Front have contributed to this, two of them most significantly, but the…
Open data in the Law on FOI – Ministry of Culture to remedy deficiencies and ambiguities
Institute Alternative (IA) has prepared and submitted to the Ministry of Culture comments on Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Free Access to Information (FOI). Amendments to the Law on FOI introduced provisions that regulate reuse of public sector information and therefore are important for the whole Montenegrin community advocating openness of data…
Parliamentary program, Rule of law
Press release: Security and Defense Committee violates the Law for five months
Security and Defence Committee has not adopted the Parliamentary Oversight Plan for 2016, which should have been done according to the Law on Parliamentary Oversight of Security and Defence Sector The Committee competent for the control of the security sector was obliged to adopt the Annual Parliamentary Oversight Plan for 2016 by the end of…
Interview: Excessive Use of Force Is Still Tolerated In the Montenegrin Police
Corruption remains a serious concern despite positive legislative changes in Montenegro. The situation is highly problematic in an environment where police officers are accused of corruption or there is a lack of coordination between police and prosecutors. This is one of the reasons why the European Parliament criticized the government’s lacklustre approach to tackling corruption…
IA presented recommendations for better reporting on public procurement
Representatives of Institute Alternative (IA) held a meeting today with Assistant Director of Public Procurement Administration (PPA) Mara Bogavac. The meeting was held at the initiative of PPA, regarding our findings from numerous publications, especially out last year’s report Public Procurement in Montenegro: Corruption Within the Law. The aim of the meeting is to improve…
Blog, EU accession negotiations
Corruption at the top of the class
Nearly four years after the start of EU accession negotiations, and more than two since the opening of chapters 23 and 24 relating to the rule of law, Montenegro is waiting for the European Commission to (pr)evaluate the success of fulfilling tasks put before it. These requirements, which EC uses to “measure” the level of…
Accountable public finances, Social policy
Towards more transparent transfers at local level
How transparent are social transfers in our local municipalities? How much money is allocated to individuals, institutions, NGOs and public sector at local level? How responsible are our local municipalities while controlling these transfers? These are some of the issues we are dealing with in election year, through our online portal for local budgets, Moj…
Workshop: How to achieve good governance?
Guidelines for monitoring of future Strategy for Public Administration Reform are result of two day workshop, organized by Institute alternative in Podgorica, on 4th and 5th April, within the project ‘’Civil Society for Good Governance: to Act and Account!’’, with the support of the European Union (EU). Next to Institute alternative, active participants of the…
Press release: Amendments to the Law on Local Self Government to be thoroughly approached
Current proposal for amendments to the Law on Local Self-Government is not contributing to one of the main objectives – to bring legal certainty in employment and civil service administration at the local level. Proposed amendments, formulated on the Government’s session in mid-December last year, include more than 20 articles which regulate civil service system.…
Press release: Public Procurement Administration conceals contracting authorities’ misdemeanors
Although the deadline for submitting annual reports on public procurement is the end of February, only half of them is publicly available on the website of Public Procurement Administration This year Public Procurement Administration (PPA) began a practice of publishing annual reports on public procurement, which is a significant step towards greater transparency. However, the…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
The Council for Development of NGOs takes no notice of the requests of NGOs
Owing to the votes of the NGO representatives, last year’s Performance Report of the Council for Development of NGOs was not adopted while today’s session was once again marked by the negative attitude of the Ministry of Finance towards initiatives of NGOs. As their key remarks, NGO representatives stated that the Draft Performance Report of…
EU accession negotiations, Parliamentary program, Public administration reform, Rule of law
Press Release: Progress symbolic, corruption persistent
Particular significance of the European Parliament’s Resolution on the 2015 Report on Montenegro lies in acknowledging the importance of adopting a quality strategic framework for public administration reform in the next four years, which needs to provide a basis for adherence to the principles of merit, depoliticization, accountability and transparency in public administration. Bearing in…