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.
Press release: Government to urgently take a position on the SAI report
05. 11. 2012.
From this year’s audit report on the financial account of the Budget, it is clear that the work of the SAI is not taken seriously into account neither by the Government and Ministry of Finance, nor by the individual audit entities and the Parliament. Institute Alternative has been dealing with the problem of the impact…
Statement: No Follow-up to SAI’s recommendations
04. 11. 2012.
Questions from “Dan”: Can you comment the final report of the SAI on the Government accounts for 2011 year and the fact that the Ministers were shared 775 thousand euros, hired 697 civil servants and diverted funds from one budget item to another and between the consumer unit? How do you comment the fact that…
Statement: Expectations from the new Government
26. 10. 2012.
Questions from Dan newspaper: – What are your expectations from the new -old Government? – Is it realistic to expect a decrease in unemployment, an increase in average wage and general economic growth? Mark SOŠIĆ, Public Policy Researcher in Institute Alternative replies: The new Government is primarily expected to intensify efforts in the fight against…
Conference: The role of Supreme Audit Institutions in Party Financing Control
18. 06. 2012.
Representative of Institute Alternative participated in the work of the Second Regional Conference of Supreme Audit Institutions, named “The role of Supreme Audit Institutions in Party Financing Control“. President of the Managing Board of Institute Alternative, Stevo Muk, presented the relations between the State Audit Institution and NGO sector, emphasising possibilities steming from the Strategic…
Situation With the President of Senate of State Audit Institution
07. 06. 2012.
Questions of the reporter from daily Vijesti: 1. How do you comment information that the Government paid 250,000 euro to the former finance minister in order to help his defence during the trial against him in Italy? 2. Do you think that Ivanisevic, being a president of Senate of State Audit Institution, can still perform…
Problems with concessions
18. 05. 2012.
A year after the amendments to the Law on concessions entered the parliamentary procedure, Montenegro still doesn’t have a completed and adequate legal framework in the field of public-private partnerships and concessions. The team in charge of making the amendment proposals was formed by the decision of Commission for Economic Policies and Financial System of…
