Public administration reform
The goal of the program is to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and accountability of the public administration (government, local government, public services). This program is especially dedicated to harmonization of legislative framework and practices with the principles of European administrative space, organization and rationalization of public administration, merit-based recruitment and carreer advancement as well as the quality of the law-making and policy development.
For Free Access to Information without Excuses
24. 06. 2021.
In our comments on the Draft Law on Free Access to Information we pointed out that certain provisions, imprecisely determined restrictions such as trade secret or protection of intellectual property, as well as unclear dynamics of proactively publishing of information of public importance, can thwart deviation from previous bad implementation of this act. Institute Alternative…
Database networking is key to preventing conflicts of interest in public procurement
28. 05. 2021.
Podgorica, PR Press Service– The system of prevention and prosecuting conflicts of interest in public procurement can be improved through preventive and repressive actions. It is necessary to network the system, avoiding to put all the pressure on one institution, and for the public to have a control role it is necessary to improve transparency.…
The Ministry of Interior spent milions of euros over the plan
14. 05. 2021.
Institute Alternative’s analysis on implementation of the new Public Procurement Law The Royal Capital of Cetinje amended its 2020 Public Procurement Plan as many as 18 times and the Municipality of Ulcinj executed only 7% of its public procurement budget in 2019. Those are just some of the examples of poor planning that Institute Alternative…
Initiative: Increase Transparency of the Government’s work
29. 04. 2021.
It will soon be a month since we wrote to the Government and called for greater transparency in the work through three concrete steps regarding the availability of information on the work and decision-making of the Government and its working bodies. We have not yet received the answer or noticed a change in practice. It…
Intensify and Improve the Work of Parliamentary Committees
06. 04. 2021.
Only two of the 14 parliamentary committees adopted work plans for this year during first quarter, while two committees have not held a single session since their constitution in mid-December last year. According to the information available on the website of the Parliament, only the Committee on International Relations and Emigrants has adopted work plan…
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…
