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Advanced Public Policy School: Evidence and data for good governance
Seventeen representatives of state administration, media and NGOs attended a three-day training on public policy monitoring and evaluation, organized by Institute Alternative. “Public Policy School: Monitoring and Evaluation” was held in Kolašin, on 16, 17. and 18 of June. The theme of this year’s school is of great importance since the overall reform in Montenegro…
Press release: Budgetary Inspection Needs to Become Functional Urgently
We submitted an initiative to the Ministry of Finance to urgently start the process of filling three vacant positions in the Department for Budgetary Inspection, including the position of the Chief budgetary inspector, as well as to make the work of this body more transparent. In the wake of adoption of the Fiscal Strategy which…
Withdraw the Draft Law on Old Royal Capital Cetinje from the procedure
Institut alternativa calls upon the Ministry of Public Administration to withdraw the Draft Law on Old Royal Capital Cetinje from the procedure. The Ministry has suddenly opened the public debate for this law, without prior notice, without a working group, and with no indication about this law in the Government’s program of work for this…
Protest over the unjustifiably shortened public debate on the Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Social and Child Protection
Dear Prime Minister, Mr. Marković, We protest against the decision of Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, Mr. Kemal Purišić, for having drastically shortened the public debate on the Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Social and Child Protection, despite the appeal of 14 non-governmental organizations. We believe that his actions are contrary…
Montenegro at the bottom of open data ranking
With its poor results in the field of transparency of public data and the use of new technologies in the transparency of its administration, Montenegro ranks among the three last countries in Europe as 83rd on the list of 115 countries. Montenegro has been included in the global measurement of public data openness, Open Data…
Statement for “Vijesti”: Controversial laws travel slowly
These two laws made it to the Parliament, i.e. they are published on the Parliament’s website together with rationale for their adoption. Amendments to the Law on Public Procurement, although adopted at the Government’s session a week before these two, still did not make it to the Parliament, i.e. they are not published at the…