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Procrastination and Repetition of Procedures: Main Enemy of Citizen-Centric Administration
Without systematic monitoring of administrative procedures and disputes, we don’t know to what extent the fight against main enemies of citizen-centric administration will be effective, said Milena Milošević at today’s panel discussion. The panel discussion named “Citizen-Centric Public Administration” was organised by the United Nations Development Programme in Montenegro and the Ministry of Public Administration…
Accountable public finances, EU accession negotiations, Public administration reform
Public-Private Partnerships and Concessions
Proposed Solutions Carry Corruption Risk Exclusion of public-private partnerships of low value from the Law and the establishment of two registers for public-private partnerships, instead of one in which all data would be available, as well as the wide range of reasons for avoiding public call for concessions, does not give confidence that the proposed…
Institute Alternative in Belfast: Monitoring Public Assemblies
Aleksandra Vavić and Ivana Bogojević, Public Policy Researchers at the Institute Alternative, participated in a training on observing of public assemblies, held in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The training was organized by the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL) in the framework of the project “Monitoring Right To Free Assembly”, which aims to assess the environment…
Why We Are Against the Proposed “Optimization” of Public Administration
Stevo Muk, a representative of Institute Alternative in the Inter-Departmental expert team, voted against the Draft Optimization Plan for Public Administration in Montenegro for the period 2018-2020. The Draft Public Administration Optimization Plan is largely based on restricting employment until March 1st 2019, non-extension of fixed-term contracts, retirement of employees who meet conditions, mutually agreed…
EU accession negotiations, Parliamentary program, Public administration reform
TV Show “Reflector”
Decision of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption and Dismissal of Ćalović Marković – continuation of the fight against Government critics? Ana Đurnić, Public Policy Researcher in IA, was a guest in the TV Vijesti Show “Reflector”. The topic was “APC decision and dismissal Ćalović Marković – continuation of the fight against those with…
Public administration reform, Rule of law
Announcement: Police – Integrated Body, Yes or No?
Institute Alternative is organizing a panel discussion with the topic on “Police – Integrated Body, Yes or No?” which will take place in Hotel Podgorica, Montenegro, on 14 of June at 11 AM. The topics of the discussion are following: What are the key advantages and disadvantages of the concept of “integrated bodies”? What are…