Accountable public finances
The goal of the program is to achieve more accountable, transparent and rational management of public finances. The focus of the program is on further development of external (state) audit, internal controls in the public sector as well as the parliamentary oversight over the budget. Within this program, special attention is given to the public procurements, public-private partnerships and concessions.
Communists Accommodated DPS and SDP, the State Provided Half Million a Year for Opposition
24. 06. 2019.
Political parties are receiving money from Property Administration for renting office space on monthly a basis. This is done without any legal act or criteria such as number of members in Parliament, number of party employees, location where the office could be leased… Political parties, beside the money for regular work which they receive from…
Commentary on the European Commision’s Report for the Radio of Montenegro (RCG)
07. 06. 2019.
Dina Bajramspahić provided commentary for the Radio of Montenegro (Radio Crne Gore) on the European Commission’s findings from the just published Report on Montenegro for 2019. In our review of the report, we concluded that the findings of the European Commission put under question the country’s leading position compared to other Western Balkan countries; some…
Constitutional Court to abolish basis for allocating apartments to the officials
05. 06. 2019.
Institute Alternative filed the Initiative to the Constitutional Court of Montenegro for the assessment of the constitutionality of provisions of the Law on the Maintenance of Residential Buildings, which the Government uses as a basis for issuing decisions on resolving the housing needs of public officials. We find that the by-laws regulating issues beyond this…
New report on the Public Finance Management Reform (PFM) Programme
09. 04. 2019.
We have prepared a report on on the implementation of Public Finance Management (PFM) Reform Programme, which cross-refers the official data and covers some of the less studied aspects of the PFM reform. According to the official Government reports on the implementation of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Reform Programme, one-third of the planned activities…
They don’t know what they own, and yet they pay the rent
26. 03. 2019.
Property Administration spent a record amount of 4,7 million EUR for lease of objects and business premises in 2018, while the public is still unaware of the number of state-owned real estates and of the revenue accumulated from their lease or sale. According to a research conducted by the Centre for Investigative Journalism of Montenegro…
“My Town About My Money” on the Radio of Montenegro
24. 03. 2019.
Presentation of the key findings on openness of local budgets from new Institute Alternative report, “My Town About My Money” was special topic for the show “Mozaik” on the Radio of Montenegro. Beside presenting our findings on quality of the reporting to the public and availability of municipal budgetary documents, this report also launched a…
