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Citizens Unprepared to Report Police Corruption
Citizens trust the police, but consider it to be significantly corrupted. Their readiness to report police corruption cases is declining according to the research conducted for the third year in a row within the regional network POINTPULSE The results of the public opinion research on police in Montenegro was presented today in Podgorica by Institute…
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All our Failures
We mark the tenth anniversary of the foundation of Institute alternative this month. We started from zero. It took us five years to become a relatively stable organization and it took us ten years to secure a place among the most active and most prominent organisations with 10 employees. It is very difficult to talk…
Anniversary of Institute Alternative: Our First Decade
We research public policy because public policy affects us During the ten years of its existence, Institute Alternative realised its ideas through 84 projects with the aim of creating preconditions for better governance, effective expenditure of citizens’ money, better control of executive authority and security services, as well as better parliamentary control. The results of…
Presenting the results of the public opinion survey “What do citizens think about the police – In the service of citizens or someone else?”
The Institute Alternative and the regional network of CSOs POINTPULSE are organizing a presentation of the results of the survey “What do citizens think about the police – in the service of citizens or someone else?”, which will be held at the PR Center on September 14, 2017, starting at 11:00. The focus of the…
The Capital City one of the leaders in poor public procurement planning
The Capital City has been one of the leaders in poor public procurement planning for years, as it mostly copies the same plan year after year, retaining the same planned sum of about four million euros, although it has not spent that amount in any of the past years. Irrational planning, frequent amendments and non-realization…
While public procurement are irrationally planned, the real citizens’ needs are “on hold”
Irrational planning, frequent amendments and non-realization of plans are some of the central problems in the public procurement system. In 2016, large differences were observed in the planned and spent budget for public procurement for certain categories of contracting authorities, whereas the data on the total difference between planned and spent money for public procurement…