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.
Defender of the state budget, but the last on the Government’s agenda: Forgotten Protector
19. 01. 2017.
In 2017, the Parliament, the Government and the Ministry of Finance should address better the legal regulation of the position of Protector of legal and property interests, the institution responsible for representing state interests. In our policy brief “Public finances and the Accountability of the Administration: What does the Protector protect?”, produced with the financial…
Agency for Prevention of Corruption to provide information on public officials
13. 01. 2017.
For more than three months now, the Agency refuses to provide us with a list of all public officials in Montenegro and a list of public officials who gave consent to the Agency to check their bank accounts, as well as the copies of those consents. Also, the Agency has not provided us with a…
IA researchers learned from Hungarian think tanks
10. 12. 2016.
Institute alternative public policy researchers, Ana Đurnić and Milica Ražnatović, visited think tank organizations in Budapest in order to exchange experiences and establish cooperation with organizations dealing with public policy research in Hungary. Within the study visit, organized from 27 November to 2 December 2016, Institute Alternative researchers had the opportunity to meet with the…
IA comments on the Draft Budget for 2017 of the Capital City Podgorica
29. 11. 2016.
Institute alternative delivered its recommendations for more transparent budget presentation in 2017. Our suggestions concern the manner in which budget data are represented n the Draft Budget of the Capital City and the following justification. Some of the recommendations strongly point out the need for understandible presentation of budget expenses and real needs of the…
Amendments of the budget – what actually happened and who is responsible?
27. 11. 2016.
During a 30 minute parlimentary discussion, when the rebalance of the budget for 2016. was adopted, the key weakest link that caused the necessity for amendements to the law on the budget was the so-called “compensation for mothers“. The representatives of the Ministry of Finance have accused the MPs for adopting the amendements of the…
Press release: Public discussion without citizens
24. 11. 2016.
This year’s central public discussion on draft budget of the Capital also went by without the presence of the citizens. In the auditorium of KIC “Budo Tomović“ there were some journalists, representatives of parliamentary clubs, institutions and the Capital City’s entreprises, as well as the representatives of the Institute Alternative. This is a clear indicator…
