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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…
SAI and Criminal Charges
During the meeting with state auditors and civil society held last week, one of the key issues raised was whether the State Audit Institution (SAI) should file criminal charges and why that hasn’t been done in their thus far. The reports of SAI list numerous irregularities and illegalities in the field of managing the public…
IA donated books to the Faculty of the Political Science
As a research institute, we prepare and publish publications of importance for the students and academia, so we wanted to offer the analysis of the key elements of public policy from the perspectives of different scientific disciplines with our collection of papers “Public Policy”. This collection was the result of our programme” Public Policy School”,…
Collection of concession fees still under the veil of secrecy
New proposals by the Draft Law on public-private partnership are not stimulating, do not adequately regulate the supervision over the implementation of these partnerships, and they are not based on “lessons learnt” from the bad application of the concession policy thus far. By avoiding the application of the Public Procurement Law and by preventing the…
Replacements and court intrigues
Replacements of the Head of authorities, as the act of the sanctioning due to the lack of results and serious omissions, make sense only if: those replaced are not shifted to another managerial position and secondly, even more important, if their position has been fulfilled by better, more professional and capable officials. Otherwise, the replacement…
Reaction: Open Calls Instead of Political Decrees
The appointment of the Assistance Ministers must not be subjected to the coalition agreements. The recruitment should be made solely on the basis of open calls and capabilities of the candidates verified by the special commission, as said from the Institute Alternative (IA). The media announced today that one of the topic between the Heads…
First meeting of the civil society and state auditors held
The first consultative meeting between State Audit Institution (SAI) and the civil society was held today, organized by Institute Alternative, with the support of the Royal Norwegian Embassy. On behalf of SAI, the meeting was attended by the Senate members, Nikola Kovačević, Branislav Radulović and Dragiša Pešić, who answered many questions posed by representatives…
First meeting of the civil society and state auditors held
The first consultative meeting between State Audit Institution (SAI) and the civil society was held today, organized by Institute Alternative, with the support of the Royal Norwegian Embassy. On behalf of SAI, the meeting was attended by the Senate members, Nikola Kovačević, Branislav Radulović and Dragiša Pešić, who answered many questions posed by representatives of…
Press release: Annexes to Public Procurement Contracts Must be Published
Public Procurement Directorate neither does not keep track nor publishes information about the exact number of the annexes concluded annually, neither does keep track about the total amount of completed modifications of basic public procurement contracts, which creates the space for the misuse and limits the transparency. In a response to a request for free…
Press release: Large number of complaints due to the deployment of staff in state administration
Permanent deployment of civil servants and state employees causes the dissatisfaction of staff in the state administration who often complaint about the demotion, according to the preliminary findings of the Institute Alternative (IA). During 2014, total of 126 complaints have been filed against the order of demotion of civil servants and state employees, 89 of…
Memorandum of Cooperation signed with the State Prosecutor’s Office
Stevo Muk, the President of the Managing board of the Institute Alternative and Ivica Stanković, the Chief State Prosecutor have signed the Memorandum of Cooperation between Institute Alternative and State Prosecutor’s Office today. The objective of the Memorandum is to formalize the existing cooperation and to lay ground for future joint work on the improvement…
Announcement: Consultative meeting of the civil society and State auditors
On Monday, March 9th, we are organizing the first meeting with the representatives of the civil society and State Audit Institution (SAI), two actors who, in our opinion, have similar goal but different methods of achieving it. The working title of the meeting is “Cooperation between the civil society and State Audit Institution – Together…