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Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Proposals for the SAI Audit Plan
State Audit Institution is currently preparing an audit plan for the next year. SAI is independent and free to choose audits as it wants, but that doesn’t mean they can not get suggestions from others. SAI may audit not only individual institutions but also certain policies, such as collecting of fees for forest concessions or…
Public administration reform, Rule of law
Citizens believe that the fight against the corruption in police is ineffective
PR Press service, Podgorica – Despite a stable trust in police, citizens believe that the state is insufficiently effective in fighting corruption, according to the Institute alternative’s research. Ipsos Strategic Marketing conducted a field research in September of this year, for the needs of Institute alternative, on a sample of 1,013 adult citizens of Montenegro.…
Irrational spending? Montenegro is going to spend 18 million euro on medical supplies
For almost three decades, since Health Fund has operated, only once – at the request of the Ministry of health, this institution asked for the list of medical supplies in hospital stocks. In 2016 the list indicated that there is a lot of unnecessary spending in Montenegrin healthcare. The Minister of health at that time,…
Accountable public finances, EU accession negotiations
Ministry of Finance hides EC’s Opinion on the Draft Law on Public-Private Partnership
Ministry of Finance claims that it does not possess the European Commission’s (EC) Opinion on the Draft Law on Public Private Partnership (PPPs), although it states in another document that it obtained the Opinion in July this year. Acting upon our request for free access to information submitted on 15 September 2018, Ministry of Finance…
EU accession negotiations, Public administration reform, Rule of law
Materials for Council’s sessions to be published in advance
Agency for Prevention of Corruption does not publish materials for the Council’s sessions in advance, thus further disabling interested public to participate in this body’s work. The Agency did not publish the Third Quarterly Performance Report for 2018 nor the Proposal of the Rulebook on internal organisation and systematisation, which are to be discussed at…
Accountability of police officers: spiders pass, and small flies get caught?
The goal of internal mechanisms for determining accountability is to make difference between those police officers who obey the law and the rules of the service and those who do not obey, or obey to a lesser extent, said Dina Bajramspahic, Public Policy Researcher at Institute Alternative. She highlighted the importance of a consistent and…