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Disciplinary Procedures in the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP)
The Disciplinary Commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Montenegro identified the responsibility of police officers in 16 cases during the year 2022, while in 7 cases, police officers were acquitted of disciplinary responsibility. This Commission is responsible for conducting procedures for serious violations of official duty. The report from this commission does not…
A call to prevent further undermining of local-level recruitment
The members of the new parliamentary majority have decided to follow in the footsteps of their predecessors and ignore clear warnings from the European Commission, once again proposing amendments to the Law on Local Self-Government that lower recruitment conditions. We also remind you that the same amendments were proposed last year, which, among other…
Phantom savings in the budget for the year 2024
Nearly a month after the legal deadline, the Government has submitted the budget proposal to the Parliament – some of our key observations are as follows (originally published in an article for the daily newspaper Vijesti). Phantom Savings Savings or rationalizations are absent in both the budget rebalances for the year 2023 and the…
About inspections from the anti-corruption perspective
A summary of the challenges in the work of inspection bodies, and their cooperation with the judiciary, independent institutions and civil society from the perspective of a more effective fight against corruption was in the focus of the first meeting organised within the project Inspect to Protect: Turning Inspectorates Into Anti-Corruption Allies. On December 8th,…
Parliamentary program, Public administration reform
IA took part in the Round Table ‘Law on Government – Open Issues’
On December 12, IA participated in the Round Table ‘Law on Government – Open Issues,’ organized by the Ministry of Public Administration in cooperation with the Association of Lawyers of Montenegro. In addition to our participation in the Working Group for drafting the Draft Law on Government, during this Round Table, we once again presented…
Open sessions and/or open government?
In the debate over the decision of the 44th Government to stop the practice of broadcasting its sessions, introduced by the previous 43rd Government, the focus often shifts away from fundamentally important issues related to the transparency of the government’s work. Numerous documents from the government’s sessions and its working bodies should be disclosed, which…
The Ministry of the Interior should prepare a human resource plan for the next year
The Ministry of the Interior of Montenegro has not fulfilled the legal obligation to submit the Human Resource Plan in the past three years, as, despite several government conclusions instructing the authorities that have not done so to submit drafts of human resource plans, it has not prepared plans for the years 2021, 2022, and…
Results: Call for Proposals ‘SOEs under CSO watch’
IA will support five civil society organisations to implement projects and initiatives aimed at contributing to the improvement of the environment for monitoring public enterprises. As part of the project “Civil Society for Better, Effective, Sustainable and Transparent State-Owned Enterprises (BEST SOEs)”, IA aims to contribute to the fight against corruption through efficient oversight of…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Direct and without control – Simple procurement up to 5000 EUR
The research for the year 2022 has revealed irregularities in the use of the direct contract procurement. Our findings showed that individual procurement exceed the amount of 5,000 euros excluding VAT; contracting authorities do not take into account the annual estimation of public procurement subject, and for certain subject that amount reaches over 40,000 euros.…
There is no sufficient progress in gender-responsive budgeting
The recommendations for improving gender-responsive budgeting include, among other things, supporting spending units for better formulation of gender-responsive and transformative goals and indicators, as well as better control of reports on budget execution, with a focus on the results achieved. This was highlighted during the panel discussion ‘Program Budgeting through Gender Lens: What Have We…
NGOs submitted proposals and priorities for public administration reform
A meeting of the National Working Group for Public Administration Reform was held in Podgorica, attended by representatives of the civil society and the Ministry of Public Administration. At the meeting, discussions revolved around the 2024 priorities of the Ministry of Public Administration and proposals from representatives of non-governmental organisations for improving public administration reform.…
European Commission Report’s findings for 2023 as expected
Dragana Jaćimović, public policy researcher at the Institute Alternative, participated in an online discussion organised by the European Policy Centre (CEP) on the topic of the European Union (EU) enlargement package for 2023 and the very functioning of democratic institutions in the countries of the Western Balkans. The participants also discussed the recently published reports…