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Press release: State to do more in order to protect the LGBT population
Institute Alternative strongly condemns the attack on the activist of NGO LGBT Forum Progress in Podgorica and calls upon the state authorities to bring the culprits of this attack to justice and penalize them in accordance with the law. The politics of impunity over attacks on LGBT persons, especially during and after the pride parades,…
Unconvincing view of political impartiality in the state administration
Replies to our initiatives addressed to the Ethics Committee and the Administrative Inspection related to the nomination of civil servants for local elections indicate passivity of these institutions and the vagueness of legal regulations governing political impartiality of civil servants. The Ethics Committee and the Administrative Inspection are of the opinion that running for local…
Lectures of the 3rd module held – Public Policy School
Lectures within the III module of the 2014 Public Policy School were held on Saturday and Sunday, May 17 and 18, 2014. The lecture entitled “Evaluation of Public Policies” was presented by Dragisa Mijacic, Executive Director of Institute for Territorial Economic Development (InTER) from Serbia. Agenda of the III module of Public Policy School is…
Press release: Citizens of Podgorica can’t access the electoral lists
Less than two weeks before election day, the Electoral Commission of the Capital Podgorica has not yet made public the electoral lists containing names of nominees for councilors of the City Parliament. As stipulated by the Law on Election of Councilors and Members of the Parliament „municipal election commission shall have its website to immediately…
Press release: Is there political will for true participation in OGP?
Montenegro, a member of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), is late with implementing its OGP obligations and still has not delivered the first version of its second Action Plan to the OGP Secretariat. Although a member of the global Open Government Partnership initiative (OGP), Montenegro is late with meeting its obligations and still has not…
Five stars for IA’s transparency
Institute Alternative (IA) is among the most transparent think tanks in the world, according to a survey conducted by an international non-profit organization Transparify. In the report of this organization, published on May 7, IA received a five stars rating for transparency, together with the Centre for Research and Monitoring (CEMI) and the Centre for…
Lecture of professor Zoran Stojiljković held
Lecture of professor Zoran Stojiljković was held on May 5, 2014, within the framework of Public Policy School. Professor Stojiljković spoke about creation of anti-corruption policies, as well as public policy research in electoral offer. The relation between program positions of political subjects and their actual pragmatic political positioning and defining, as well as the…
Press release: Municipalities breaching the Public Procurements Law
Although the Law on Public Procurement provides that the annual total value of purchases generated by direct agreement between the authorities and the bidder, may not exceed 10% of executed budget for procurement of seven local governments in the 2013 exceeded this limit, thus violating Article 30 of this Law. After examining the reports on…
Press release: Electoral lists to be checked – Public servants or politicians?
The electoral lists for local elections in Podgorica contain names of persons occupying senior positions within public administration, which represents violation of the Law on Civil Servants and State Employees and points out to politicization of state administration that is still present. Civil servants and state employees are obliged to restrain from public demonstration of…
The Game of Open Cards
It seems to me that the public knows very little about the true ratio of political power, since no public opinion polls have been published prior to these local elections, while it was a frequent practice to do so before. Towards the elections in fourteen municipalities in Montenegro, apparently everyone knows everything. Everyone acts tough…
The Work and Opportunities of Local Parliaments
Our researcher Marko Sošić spoke about the control of local budgets at the panel discussion “The Work and Possibilities of Local Parliaments”. The panel was organized within the project Corruption on the local level – zero tolerance!, implemented by Centre for Civic Education (CCE) in cooperation with Institute Alternative (IA). The panelists were: Zoran Stojiljković,…
Press relase: Audit Subjects Not Complying with SAI’s Requests
Institut alternativa’s research indicates that half of institutions that were audited by the State Audit Institution (SAI) in the last year have not complied with the obligation to submit reports on the implementation of the SAI’s recommendations. Auditees that did not submit the report on the fulfillment of the recommendations are: Municipality of Bijelo Polje,…