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.
Meeting with Director of the Agency for Prevention of Corruption
15. 10. 2020.
President of the Managing Board at the Institute Alternative (IA), Stevo Muk, and Ana Đurnić public policy researcher at Institute Alternative, held a meeting with Jelena Perović, the new Director of the Agency for Prevention of Corruption. IA representatives expressed their dissatisfaction with the decision making of the former management in cases that IA initiated…
Call for Applications: Training on Gender Sensitive Budgeting
12. 10. 2020.
Gender equality and public policies: Basics of gender sensitive budgeting Institute Alternative (IA) announces public call for online training on Gender sensitive budgeting Institute Alternative invites civil servants, decision-makers and representatives of civil society to apply for online training on gender sensitive budgeting. We especially encourage to apply for the training: representatives of the Parliamentary…
Discrimination in the MOI: Open Violation of Regulations
09. 10. 2020.
Opinion of the Ombudsman’s office on gender discrimination in the Ministry of the Interior is a display of frequent violation of regulations on civil service relations, abuse of temporary and occasional business contracts, distortion of the spirit of certain laws. Despite certain provisions which are good, these laws are not able to protect the rights…
Another protest of NGOs due to the coup in the Constitutional Court
09. 10. 2020.
Non-governmental organisations Human Rights Action (HRA), Centre for Civil Liberties (CEGAS), European Association for Law and Finance (EALF), Institute Alternative (IA), Institute for the Rule of Law (IVP) and the Network for Affirmation of the NGO Sector (MANS) protested because the Constitutional Court of Montenegro had not initiated the procedure of electing its president in…
TV Show Reflektor: Milena Muk on Post-Election Public Administration
07. 10. 2020.
Whether mass, post-election hirings in public administration has spiraled out of control, whether the incumbent Government is using the transition period to reward the loyal ones by hiring them in public administration and whether the new Government can review such decisions – these were just some of the topics of TV show Reflektor, broadcasted on…
European Commission: Montenegro Remained Average
06. 10. 2020.
As in the previous five years, based on the methodology of the European Commission, IA transformed the report’ assessments into numbers in order to see scores in a simpler way, and compare the situation with previous years. Although this is the first report of the new commissioner Várhelyi and his team, it does not differ…
