News
Clarifications – Money Watch Call for Proposals
Below you can find clarifications and answers to the question we have received so far regarding our Call for Proposals for Small Grants Facility within the project Money Watch – Civil Society Guarding the Budget. Clarifications include answers to all the questions raised during the info sessions held in Bijelo Polje, Budva and Podgorica, as well…
The first successes of party soldiers in the Senate of the State Audit Institution
The story of financial management at the Pension and Disability Insurance Fund regarding the transfer of money to the Union of Pensioners’ Associations, which Vijesti recently initiated, inter alia, pointed to the major mistakes of the State Audit Institution during the oversight of the Fund. The institution, whose primary task is to take care that…
Loss-making enterprises do not reduce salaries while state tolerates violations of laws
Despite the fact that work of public enterprises is among key elements for development of Montenegrin economy, due to their sheer number of employees and property – the state has been doing nothing to establish an adequate control over their work, for years. This particularly applies to the control of salary policy in enterprises that…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
What are the first results of the Public Administration Optimisation Plan?
Stevo Muk, President of the Managing Board at Institute Alternative, commented on the first Report on the realisation of the Public Administration Optimisation Plan, and pointed out the shortcomings in the Report and in the Plan itself, in the TV Show “Reflektor” aired on TV Vijesti. He pointed out that the Government does not have…
Accountable public finances, EU accession negotiations, Parliamentary program, Public administration reform, Rule of law
Ministry of Public Administration to urgently announce the call for co-financing of EU projects
Coalition Cooperating Towards Goal, which consists of 100 NGOs, urges the Ministry of Public Administration (MPA) to announce a call for co-financing projects and programmes of NGOs funded from EU funds in swift procedure, thus fulfilling its legal obligation. The Government of Montenegro has adopted the Regulation on the procedure and manner of co-financing projects…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Our Proposals for the Open Government Partnership
Without amending the Law on Free Access to Information, opening data on public spending and enabling citizens to be equal participants in the development of public policies, our administration remains closed to essential issues of interest to citizens. This is the core of 15 proposals, which we have sent with the aim of improving the…