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.
Meeting with the contracting authorities
20. 02. 2015.
Today we organized the meeting with public procurement officers. This meeting was the follow up of the research on the attitudes of the contracting authorities and bidders about the risk for corruption in the public procurement procedure. In the first phase of the research, the public procurement officers have been submitting their remarks and suggestion,…
House of the Civil Society at the agenda of Council for NGOs
18. 02. 2015.
During the meeting of the Council for the Development of NGOs held today, the second topic on the agenda was “Discussion on the Government’s response on the question of the Council on the Civic house project.” During one of the previous meetings of the Council (held on November 17th 2014), the President of the Managing…
Transparency Hurts
18. 02. 2015.
If you intended to find details about public procurement, arm yourself with patience, concentrate and – take fifteen-day long break. Representatives of state institutions swear that their work is transparent and emphasize that everything is publicly available on the websites or that all information in possession of the state organ is possible to obtain by…
Press Release: More employees in the municipalities
13. 02. 2015.
The number of employees in Montenegrin municipalities has increased by more than 1200 in comparison to the year 2012, despite the announcements that this number would be rationalized in accordance to quotas established beforehand as well as with regulations stipulated in the Public Sector Internal Reorganisation Plan. On September 30th 2014, Montenegrin local governments had…
Infographic: What have the MPs done with the budget for 2015
13. 02. 2015.
The Budget Proposal for 2015 has been submitted to the Parliament earlier than ever before, thanks to the amendments on the Systemic and Organic Law on the Budget and budget calendar. We have been researching if more time spent on reviewing the budget has affected the intensity of MP’s activity and how different is the…
Press Release: “High-Level Corruption” Term Not to be Used for Manipulations
12. 02. 2015.
Institute Alternative invites Montenegrin MPs to remove the definition of “high corruption” from the Draft Law on Special State Prosecutor’s Office. The current definition of the term enables conducting manipulative statistics as well as inaccurate reporting to the domestic and international public. This definition is partly related to the criminal offenses carried out by official,…
