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Press release: Do MPs read reports of the State Audit Institution?
The Parliamentary Committee on Education, Science, Culture and Sports failed to support the initiative of MP Srđan Perić to hold a control hearing of Minister of Education Slavoljub Stijepović about the situation in the publishing industry, in light of the findings presented in the Report of the State Audit Institution (SAI) on the audit of…
Round table on mapping of services of social protection in Montenegro
Today many representatives of CSOs, centers for social work, local governments and institutions of social and child protection attended the round table entitled “Mapping the services of social protection in Montenegro“. Round table is organised within the project „Mapping the alternative social services in Montenegro“, which is still ongoing. The project is supported by the…
Press Release: Dilemmas and Deficiencies in the Implementation of the New Law to be Removed
Despite improvements, the first six months of the implementation of the new Law on Civil Servants and State Employees (LCSSE) with regard to the recruitment and promotion in state authorities was marked by the lack of preconditions and tardiness in the responses of state authorities about filling their vacancies. Institute Alternative (IA) continuously follows implementation…
Meeting with the representatives of German Ministry of Finance
The representatives of German Ministry of Finance Ms. Ingrid Roeder and Mr. Oliver Klabunde, in charge of the European Union enlargement and bilateral relations with candidate countries for the accession to the EU, visited Institute Alternative today. Mr. Olaf Poeschke, Deputy Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Montenegro, attended the meeting as well.…
IA to hold a round table on mapping the social services
In order to present the Draft version of the research report “Mapping the services of social protection in Montenegro”, Institute Alternative will organize a round table On October 10 in Podgorica, in the premises of the PR Center. Goals of the research were: To determine availability of the community based services in local governments; To…
The balance of impotence
The phrase from the title of this text was employed recently by Miodrag Lekić, leader of Democratic Front, while trying to explain current relations in the ruling coalition. It might be that Lekic was right and that he objectively depicted relations between the major and minor partner in the ruling coalition. Yet, it seems that…
Positive audit report on IA’s project
At its last session, the Government has verified the Report of the Commission for allocation of revenue from gambling on expenditure of funds awarded by the Decision on allocation of revenue from gambling for 2011 to the organizations whose projects were under audit. Selected audit company conducted financial monitoring of all plans and programs of…
Press release: State authorities should publish lists of their employees
More than two thirds of state authorities breached their legal obligation and didn’t publish the lists of civil servants and state employees at the Internet what negatively affects transparency of public administration work. Out of 52 authorities, defined by the Decree on the organization and manner of work of state administration, including the authorities within…
Press release: Public Without An Insight Into The Key Document Of Public Administration Reform
Plan for the reorganization of public administration, although adopted at the Government’s session on July 18, is sill not published at the Internet, which is opposite to the Government’s decision on publishing its materials and undermines transparency of its work. The proposal of the report on progress Montenegro achieved in the period between April 25…
Press release: MPs to amend shortcomings of the Budget Law
The Bill on Budget and Fiscal Responsibility contains numerous ambiguities and shortcomings which need to be addressed through amendment procedure in the Parliament. Among other things, increasing transparency of the budget cycle and enabling more significant participation of the Parliament in this process was not achieved; offense liability is still vaguely defined; whereas autonomy of…
The Economist on PPPs in Montenegro
Montenegro was ranked 19th among the 25 states on regional level (Balkan, Central European and Eastern European countries) in the 2012 report of the Economist which evaluates the environment for public private partnerships (PPP). The criteria used for countries’ rankings were the degree of fulfillment of preconditions for realization of PPP projects. They implied assessment…
Press release: Municipal spending in 2012 still a mystery
Only ten municipalities have so far adopted the final budget account (year-end report) for 2012. Although we are already well in the second half of 2013, we are still waiting for a complete information on how the municipality collected and spent funds in the previous year. Therefore, we still do not know how municipalities spent…