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.
Institute alternative’s comments on the Draft Budget for 2016 of the Capital City Podgorica
01. 12. 2015.
Institute alternative delivered its recommendations for more transparent budget presentation in 2016. 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…
Press release: Central public discussion on planned budget of the Capital for the year 2016 has passed unnoticed
27. 11. 2015.
Yesterdays half empty press room in KIC ‘Budo Tomovic’ is a proof of the lack of participation of our citizens at public debates on local budgets. Institute alternative participated yesterday at the central public debate on Budget Draft of the Capital City for 2016. Among twenty participants, most of them represented their councilor clubs or…
Monitoring of Public Procurement – Good Practices
12. 11. 2015.
Research coordinator, Jovana Marović, participated today at the workshop on monitoring of public procurements, organized by SIGMA. She presented Institute alternative’s one year research and recently published publication called ‘Procurements in Montenegro: corruption within legal framework’, and also pointed out numerous issues and irregularities in implementation of the Law, restrictive to transparency. Not publishing individual…
IA at the OGP summit in Mexico – CSO and SAI cooperation
30. 10. 2015.
Our public policy researcher Marko Sošić has spoken on a panel on cooperation between independent institutions (such as State Audit Institutions – SAI, Ombudsman, etc.) and civil society, organised within the OGP – Civil Society Day at the Open Government Partnership Global Summit in Mexico City (27-29 October). The panel entitled “Advancing engagement of Civil…
TV Show: How do the municipalities spend their budget?
13. 10. 2015.
Our public policy researcher Marko Sošić, was a guest in a TV show “Club A” on Atlas television, in order to present a new version of the portal on local finances, www.MojGrad.me, prepared in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme, with the support of the Ministry of Finance. Besides the new data, he has…
Montenegrin public opinion on Public Procurement
12. 10. 2015.
Compared to 2012, when Ipsos Strategic Marketing has conducted the same research for the Institute Alternative, now have been registered considerably more citizens who point out that public procurement serve to enrich individuals and legalize corruption. At the same time, compared to the previous period, a higher percentage of citizens believe that the Government of…
