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.
Presentation of the web portal www.MojGrad.me
31. 07. 2013.
At a press conference held today, Institute Alternative unveiled its new web portal, www.MojGrad.me, whose aim is to increase the transparency of local budgets (Moj Grad stands for My city in Montenegrin). www.MojGrad.me is a pioneering project of budget data visualization in Montenegro. It was created as part of the project “Monitoring of local budgets”,…
Press release: Four municipalities hiding their public procurement reports
30. 07. 2013.
Institute alternative is not able to get to annual public procurements reports for over two months now – from Podgorica, Nikšić, Herceg Novi and Rožaje. Using the right to obtain information under the Law on free access to information, we’ve addressed 14 municipalities with a request for free access to information, seeking Annual Report on…
Press release: Podgorica’s Plan Far From Reality
10. 07. 2013.
Institute Alternative (IA) submitted to the authorities of Montenegro’s capital Podgorica comments to the draft Action plan for fight against corruption, finding that the document is not aligned with the national priorities and that it does not provide convincing justification of the proposed strategic aims, measures and activities. The draft action plan of capital Podgorica…
Meeting with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s rapporteurs
09. 07. 2013.
IA’s Research Coordinator, Jovana Marovic, participated in a meeting with the new rapporteurs (Nursuna Memecan from Turkey and Kimmo Sasi from Finland) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for Montenegro, 8 July 2013. The focus of the meeting was at the following topics: judiciary, electoral law, fight against corruption and public…
Corruption at the local level – consultative trainings in 14 municipalities
08. 07. 2013.
Within the project “Corruption at the local level – zero tolerance”, in the period from 3 until 25 July, consultative trainings will be organized in 14 municipalities. They are aimed at representatives of local NGOs, local administration and local MPs from committees dealing with budget and finance and the topics covered fall into in the…
Protest over rejection of our initiative
03. 07. 2013.
We express strong protest regarding the decision of the Committee on Health, Labor and Social Welfare to reject our initiative for organizing a consultative hearing on public procurement in the health sector. Its incomprehensible that Committee which has health care in its jurisdiction was not interested to learn more about the problems in the public…
