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.
There is no sufficient progress in gender-responsive budgeting
23. 11. 2023.
The recommendations for improving gender-responsive budgeting include, among other things, supporting spending units for better formulation of gender-responsive and transformative goals and indicators, as well as better control of reports on budget execution, with a focus on the results achieved. This was highlighted during the panel discussion ‘Program Budgeting through Gender Lens: What Have We…
Discussing the repression of corruption in public procurement with the Police
07. 11. 2023.
Police efforts in cases concerning corruption in public procurement were discussed at the meeting – the first one in a series of meetings on the performance of repressive institutions in the fight against corruption in public procurement. On November 6, Institute Alternative (IA) organised a meeting attended by representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs…
Openly about the issues of internal auditors
02. 11. 2023.
The internal audit system still suffers from a lack of personnel, frequent misunderstanding of this institute by public sector managers, as well as insufficient coverage of the public sector by internal audit. These are some of the issues raised at the meeting with internal auditors in the public sector, which we organised on October 27th…
Files on allocation of budget reserve 2016-2019 destroyed
01. 11. 2023.
For over two years, we have been awaiting a response from the Government regarding the distribution of the budget reserve during the term of the 41st Government, only to finally be informed that the documentation has been destroyed Files detailing how the Government Commission for the distribution of funds from the budget reserve distributed money…
The Public Procurement Inspection Found Irregularities Based on IA’s Initiative
29. 06. 2023.
At the initiative of Institute Alternative (IA), the Public Procurement Inspection found seven irregularities in procurement procedures through direct agreements in three municipalities and one ministry during 2021, but misdemeanour proceedings cannot be initiated due to the statute of limitations. The Public Procurement Inspection, while conducting supervision based on the initiative and invoices provided by…
The Second Meeting of Public Procurement Watchdogs
30. 03. 2023.
On Wednesday, March 29th, Institute Alternative organised the second meeting within the project ‘Procurement Under Spotlight – Making Watchdogs Work!’, supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Serbia and Montenegro, through the MATRA support programme. Considering that during the first Network meeting, the issue of splitting procurement contracts to avoid open…
