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Personal Responsibility for Human Rights Violation to be Determined
The joint letter addressed to Ivica Stanković, the Chief State Prosecutor, was sent by 9 NGOs, including ours, appealing to determine personal responsibility of the police officers and officials from the Prosecutor’s office who violated the human right to privacy of the employees of NGO MANS. The occasion was the final verdict of the Basic…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Call for Papers: Improving Performance of Public Administration – Current Experiences and Future Perspectives
Interested researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for presentation at the conference Improving Performance of Public Administration: Current Experiences and Future Perspectives to be held in Belgrade, Serbia 9-10 September 2015. The Conference is organised by the Think for Europe Network (comprising the European Policy Centre, Belgrade, European Policy Institute, Skopje and Institute…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Talk Show: Rationalization of the Number of Employees in Municipalities
Jovana Marović, research coordinator at the Institute, was a guest on a talk show „Balkan Ekspres“ hosted by Duška Pejović at Atlas TV. The topic of the talk show was the rationalization of the number of employees in Montenegrin municipalities. Jovana has presented key findings from the analysis conducted by Institute Alternative „Employment in Montenegrin…
POINTPULSE Network: depolitizaction is the key for building the police integrity
Clear Government’ policies for depolitizaction of the police and sharp internal control mechanisms are the key precondition for fighting the police corruption. Dina Bajramspahić and Marko Sošić have taken part at the second capacity building workshop of the POINTPULSE Network, that took place in Sofia, 31 March – 2 April. It was discussed about the…
Various Views on Procurement Corruption
Risks of corruption exist in all phases of the procurement procedure and in all areas; therefore, regardless of certain improvements that were brought with the latest amendments to the law, it is necessary to further strengthen anti-corruption mechanisms, as contracting authorities have said. Institute Alternative has conducted a research about the attitudes of the contracting…
Press Release: Stop the Pressure on Media with Selective Application of the Law
The Government of Montenegro is obliged to ensure conditions for development of media pluralism, or quality informing of Montenegrin citizens on all matters of public interest. Blocking the account of independent TV Vijesti due to tax debts is the consequence of inconsistent application of legal regulations in the area of media. Laws must be respected…
Accountable public finances, Parliamentary program
Do we need a special parliamentary Committee for Budget and Audit?
Parliamentary (political) control of the budget relies on the work of the State Audit Institutions (SAI) in regard to the oversight of the directing and spending of the budgetary funds. SAI is the key partner of the Parliament because it allows the MPs to find out what exactly is happening with the budget. At the…
Talk Show: Construction with Benefits
Our research coordinator Jovana Marović has participated in a talk show “On Fridays at 8” with Tina Raičević, broadcast on TV Vijesti. The topic of the show was corruption in urban planning, public procurement and public – private partnership. Among other things, guest of the talk show talked about numerous problems in these areas: land…
TV Debate: Government Reshuffle
Stevo Muk, the President of the Managing Board of the Institute Alternative, was the guest in the TV show “Friday at 8”, hosted by Tina Raičević on TV Vijesti. The topic of the discussion was the Government reshuffle. Other guests were Neđeljko Rudović, deputy Editor in Chief of the Daily newspaper Vijesti and Dragan Janjušević,…
Discretion without explanation: The appeal to establish guidelines for heads of authorities’ decisions
The number of the complaints filed by the candidates for employment in state organs who did not get the job has increased which imposes the need to stipulate in details the discretion of the elders when deciding. Twenty six candidates, of at least 130 who have filed complaints against the decisions on the selection of…
Press release: Open Up the Budget Data
We appeal to the Ministry of Finance to improve the transparency of the national budget by implementing the practice of budgetary data in the form that would allow the data processing and searching. In December 2014 during the parliamentary discussion on The Budget Proposal, Institute Alternative has referred to the Ministry of Finance with an…
More Precise Reporting on Procurement is Needed
Commentary of the Institute alternative on the Report of work of the Coordinating Body for Monitoring and Implementation of the Strategy for Development of the Public Procurement System for IV quarter of 2014 General remarks When it comes to the development of the public procurement system, the Report is focused on general subjects instead of…