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.
Procurement planning did not unfold “according to the plan”
18. 03. 2021.
In practice, public procurement planning is meaningless, especially at the local level, by multiple and unexplained changes of public procurement plans, which results in spending slightly more than half of the planned expenditures for these purposes on an annual basis. A large number of contracting authorities are waiting for the Budget Law so that they…
Government to re-propose the adoption of the Law on the Final Account of the Budget
26. 02. 2021.
The forgotten SAI’s recommendations Last year was the first one in which the Law on the Final Account of the Budget was not adopted and the first in more than a decade in which the Parliament did not adopt recommendations of the State Audit Institution (SAI) as its conclusions and obliged the Government to its…
Are Citizens In The First Place For Public Administration?
25. 02. 2021.
The first day of the regional conference ‘’Citizens first’’ was held in Belgrade today. We organised the event within the Think for Europe Network, as part of WeBER 2.0, a regional initiative dedicated to empowering civil society and citizens to be more willing to monitor and control the public administration reform process. Tamara Srzentić, Minister…
Strong Budgetary Inspection in Three Steps
25. 12. 2020.
During the entire mandate of the former Government, workplaces in the Budgetary inspection were vacant. Even when the inspection was functioning, it did not have good results – it did not file misdemeanour charges nor was the data about its work available to the public (minutes were marked as INTERNAL). Budgetary inspection could play the…
Local Finances, Optimisation and Covid19
16. 12. 2020.
Old question – Do municipalities exist to provide services to citizens or for some people there to receive salaries and parties to buy votes? The answer was sought in the Relfektor show on TV Vijesti, where Marko Sošić was a guest. There were interesting things, for example: How did the Municipality of Pljevlja functioned “quite…
Whose door should state auditors knock on?
08. 12. 2020.
Consultations of the SAI and civil society when: December 9th, 11am where: ZOOM platforma i IA Facebook page We are organising civil society consultations with the Senate of the State Audit Institution (SAI) in anticipation of the development of the annual audit plan for 2021. Members of the SAI Senate will talk to representatives…
