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Imprecise provisions of the Law encourage corruption
Imprecise formulations and the possibility of broad interpretation of the provisions of the Law on Public Procurement restrict the possibility of appeal and proving abuses, it was concluded at the yesterday’s panel discussion „How to fight against corruption in public procurement?“, held in Municipality of Bar. As one of the provisions of the Law on…
International conference on public policy in Milan
Representatives of TEN Network, which is composed of Institute Alternative (IA), European Policy Centre (CEP) and European Policy Institute (EPI) have presented the joint paper on successful comparative practices in the linkage of the performance audit and evaluation of public policy at the International conference on public policy in Milan (ICPP 2015). The moderator of…
Press Release: Assessments of the success for Chapter 23 are arbitrary
Semi-annual report on realization of the Action plan for the Chapter 23 abounds with imprecise information, while the assessment of the fulfillment of the measures itself is problematic and leaves a lot of space for arbitrary reporting and the manipulation with the achieved results. The high degree of implementation of the measures, 77% in the…
Parliament to request the Report on Budget Execution
We appeal to the Ministry of Finance to prepare the report on what was happening with the state budget in the first six months of 2015 and to submit it to the Parliament. It is necessary that the MPs have the data how was the state budget spent based on organisational and functional classification in…
Blog, Public administration reform
Our administration or the non-merit based rule?
In late April, the Institute Alternative (IA) has launched a new internet website. Symbolically, we have named it “My Administration”, to remind people that the government and state authorities are here because of us, and not because of them, i.e. administration itself, which often, encapsulated into the bureaucratic practices, transforms itself into a self-contained apparatus…
Press Release: Conduct checks on the spot related to the Secret Surveillance Measures and request the data from the operators
Data on the Secret Surveillance Measures (SSM) published by judiciary must not remain an exception; and Parliament has to continue with systemic oversight of the implementation of these measures. It is necessary that the Committee on Defense and Security persistently conducts “on the spot” checks and request the data on wiretapping from operators. Based on…
Strengthening the impact of State Audit Institution – The mutual cooperation is necessary
We are still far from effective control of the budget and far from the impact of the State Audit Institution (SAI) we wish for, it was concluded at today’s conference organized by Institute alternative. In this mission, Parliament, Government, Prosecutor’s Office and other institutions must have more active role and they should use the SAI’s…
Reaction: The Government hides the data, while Marković hides the truth
It’s not true that there is no interest of NGOs for obtaining full information about the results of Montenegro in the field of the rule of law. On the opposite, our interest is continuously present, but the Government’s responses don’t exist, they are imprecise or secret. That’s why we can claim that Duško Marković, the…
TRAIN Programme: Workshop in Berlin
Our researcher, Dina Bajramspahić, attended a workshop in Berlin last week (June 23rd -27th), within the TRAIN programme -Fostering policy dialogue in the Western Balkans. The programme brings together 12 representatives of think tanks from the Western Balkans who attended workshops on the topics of communication and skills for advocating recommendations from research before the…
Public debate on Chapters 23 and 24
Jovana Marović, research coordinator, has participated in public debate which marked two years since the adoption of the Action plans for Chapters 23 and 24. The debate „Action plans for Chapter 23 and 24: Where do we stand after two year of implementation“ was organized by the Office of the Chief Negotiator on Accession of…
Accountable public finances, Parliamentary program
Reaction: Still without the prerequisites for the fight against the corruption
The reaction of the members of the Working group for the Chapter 23 related to the appointment of the Council of the Agency for the prevention of corruption In the capacity of members of the Working group for Chapter 23, we express our dissatisfaction with the appointment of the Council of Agency for the prevention…
Through effective control of public procurement against corruption
The Law on Public Procurement does not adequately regulate monitoring of the implementation of the agreement, which facilitates corruption, was the conclusion of the yesterday’s panel discussion “How to fight against corruption in public procurement?” organised by the Institute alternative (IA) and supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands. On the panel discussion…