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Minister Pribilović joined the persecution of unwanted NGOs
Minister Suzana Pribilović decided not to select Stevo Muk, the candidate of the Institute alternative, for the member of the Council for Public Administration Reform. Thus, the Institute alternative that has advocated for years for the full participation of NGOs in coordination bodies to monitor public administration reform eventually became unwelcome in the Council, which…
Press release: Mysterious Mathematics of Local Sector Employment
The most recent aims of Public Administration Reform do not entail putting to an end practices of excessive employment in Montenegrin municipalities According to the report on implementation of the Action Plan of the 2016-2020 Public Administration Reform Strategy, the number of employees in municipalities increased for 441 in 2016, while the data for three…
Reaction: Announced amandments to the Law on public assemblies would be a setback of civil liberties
Following the Minister of Interior announcement that he will initiate amendments to the Law on public assemblies and public performances, in order to ban the protests on city roads, Institute Alternative warns that such legal provision would be a step backwards in relation to existing law. Additionally, it would represent step backwards from the European…
Accountable public finances, EU accession negotiations, Parliamentary program, Public administration reform, Rule of law
Interview for Monitor: We seem to be in a prolonged state of emergency
Interview with Stevo Muk, President of the Managing Board of Institute Alternative for weekly Monitor Institute Alternative has recently conducted a public opinion poll which has shown that problems within public administration are various. Nevertheless, it seems that the corruption and favouritism are burning issues. Would you say that it is only the follow-up of…
Conference: “Where Does Our Money Go? – Transparency and Accountability of the National Budget”
Within the project “Promoting financial accountability in Montenegro”, supported by the British Embassy in Podgorica, we have organised the conference “Where does our money go? – Transparency and accountability of the national budget” on March 27, 2017. At the conference, we presented our new web portal My money (www.mojnovac.me). The web portal contains visualisation and…
Public Opinion Poll: Average Grade for Services at the Local Level
Citizens mostly use municipal services, but they think that the quality of local administration services is not particularly good. According to the public opinion poll conducted by IPSOS agency for Institute Alternative, within our project “Civil Society for Good Governance: to Act and Account!“, citizens provided a 5 for municipal services, on a scale from…