Call for Proposals – Small Grants Facility

08. 10. 2018.

Institute Alternative (IA) within the project “Money Watch – Civil Society Guarding the Budget announces  Call for Proposals – Small Grants Facility  for CSOs from Montenegro Deadline for submitting project proposals, aimed at increasing effectiveness of participation of CSOs, media and citizens in scrutiny of public spending, is 15 November 2018. In order to be eligible…

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IA in the Public Finance Management Dialogue

30. 09. 2018.

We participated in the first Public Finance Management Dialogue (PFM) and presented our key recommendations in this field. Stevo Muk, President of the Managing Board of the Institute Alternative, presented our comments on the implementation of the Public Finance Management Reform Programme. He said that the implementation rate of the reform programme was poor, with…

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The Government ignores communication with NGOs

10. 09. 2018.

Coalition Cooperation to the Goal, which consists of 100 NGOs, has sent a letter to the Prime Minister more than a month ago with the call upon the Ministry of Finance and the Government of Montenegro to fulfil their legal obligations and to adopt the Regulation on co-financing of EU projects for domestic non-governmental organisations. After…

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The Government’s Proposal for the Appointment of Veljović is Illegal

27. 07. 2018.

From the documents submitted along the proposal for the appointment of Veselin Veljović as a Director of the Police Directorate it follows that legally required testing procedures had not been conducted. We urge the Government to annul the public competition.   On July 25th, the Human Resources Management Authority established a list of candidates who…

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Coalition “Cooperating Towards Goal”: Government to Enable Co-financing of the EU Projects

18. 07. 2018.

Coalition “Cooperating Towards Goal” calls upon the Ministry of Finance and the Government of Montenegro to urgently fulfil their legal obligations and adopt the Decree on co-financing of the EU projects for national non-governmental organisations. The state made a commitment to support NGO projects that have been selected through demanding and complex EU tenders, taking…

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Draft Law on State Administration: Less Control and Transparency

11. 07. 2018.

Current Draft Law on State Administration removes obligations of the state administration towards the Parliament, thus limiting its control function; the Draft is not harmonised with a number of other regulations. In our comments provided during the public discussion, we warned of the inconsistency of the proposed solutions with Rules of Procedure of the Parliament…

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