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Draft Law on State Administration: Less Control and Transparency
Current Draft Law on State Administration removes obligations of the state administration towards the Parliament, thus limiting its control function; the Draft is not harmonised with a number of other regulations. In our comments provided during the public discussion, we warned of the inconsistency of the proposed solutions with Rules of Procedure of the Parliament…
Other, Public administration reform
Government Hiding the Dynamic Plan
Despite the Government’s persistent boasting about participation of civil society in Montenegrin negotiations, it continues to create parallel negotiating structure and parallel documents besides those already in force, excluding NGOs from its preparation and monitoring. Having established the Council for Rule of Law as a parallel structure to the Working Groups for Chapters 23 and…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Municipalities To Open Its Budgets For Citizens
A third of Montenegrin municipalities do not report on citizens’ participation in public discussions on their budgets; available data show that citizens generally did not participate in budget discussions for this year, with the exception of the municipalities of Bar, Plav and Žabljak. There were no citizens at public discussion on local budgets for 2018…
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…