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Press release: Instead of praises, prosecution reports to be realistic
Reports on the work of the Supreme State Prosecutor’s Office mostly consist of statistics and ignore concrete problems in the work of this institution, although a number of issues in its work are indicated by the expert community. The conclusions from the last report of the State Prosecutor’s Office from 2012 are, in fact, positive…
Commentary on the draft Law on wages in the public sector
Institute Alternative (IA) in its 2008 analysis on wages and rewards policies in Montenegro’s public administration recommended that one legal act should regulate wages in regulatory bodies and local and state administration authorities. We thus support the decision of Ministry of Finance to draft the Law on wages of public sector employees, which would be…
Press release: Performance appraisal of state administration employees lacks criteria
Grades of state employees for previous year do not reflect their actual performance, as demonstrated by the case of Administration for Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism, whose all employees, without exception, were assessed as excellent. Law on civil servants and state employees and the Decree regulating their performance appraisal envisage continuous monitoring…
II module of the 2014 Public Policy School
Lectures within the Second module of the 2014 Public Policy School were held on April 12th and 13th, at the premises of PR Center. The topic of this module, “Public Policy Analysis”, was presented by Snežana Đorđević, PhD, professor at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Belgrade. (Agenda – only in Montenegrin)…
Press release: Rewards of Public Servants Shouldn’t Be Misused
The draft Law on wages of public sector employees leaves big discretion to the Government and local administration authorities to define salary supplements and variables aimed at motivating and attracting the experts into the sector. This document makes increase and decrease of the wage dependent upon the budget revenues and expenditure. Wage supplements and variables…
Flawed, unfinished business
The Administrative Committee has brought disgrace upon itself and this must be said loud and clear. Negative mutual solidarity of the Committee members expressed in a particular crisis situation will be marked as a dark page in the history of this Committee and the Parliament of Montenegro. Imagine the following situation. It is stipulated in…
Press release: Budva, Ulcinj, Žabljak and Rožaje still without action plans for fight against corruption
Activity from the Action Plan for Chapter 23 relating to the adoption of the local action plans for fight against corruption has not been implemented fully in accordance with the stipulated period – end of 2013. As of 31 March 2014, four municipalities have not yet adopted a strategic document for the fight against corruption…
Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
IA’s comments on the Draft of the Law on Prevention of Corruption
Institute Alternative took part in the public hearing on the Draft of the Law on Prevention of Corruption and has submitted written commentaries to the Ministry of Justice, the proposer of this draft. Among other things, we have emphasized the need to reconsider the scope of the Agency’s jurisdiction, the manner of appointments, as well…
Conference: 10 years since Slovenia joined NATO
Representatives of Institute Alternative, Jovana Marović and Dina Bajramspahić, participated in the Conference organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Slovenia’s membership in NATO. On Thursday, 3rd of April, starting at 12:30 pm, the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia organized a press conference and…
Lectures within the first module of the Public Policy School held
Lectures within the First module of the 2014 Public Policy School were held on March 29th and 30th, at the premises of PR Center. The introductory lecture of the School, entitled “The concept and the stakeholders of the process of public policy making”, was presented by Tihomir Žiljak, PhD, professor at the Faculty of Political…
IA at a roundtable on ethics and fight against corruption
Jovana Marović and Milena Milošević participated in the roundtable “Ethics and Fight Against Corruption”, which was organized by Centre for Civic Education (CCE), with the support of the British Embassy. Jovana spoke within the third panel, which was addressing the issues of ethics code of holders of executive power and the corruption risk management. Among…
IA’s new research project
Over the following three months, the research team of Institute Alternative will work on drafting a comparative study on models of internal police oversight in the three selected EU countries. Supported by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, IA is starting to work on the new research project with an overall objective to contribute to the…