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.
Inspectorate’s Decisions Have No Effect in Pljevlja: Vote Buyers Protected
15. 05. 2018.
With the use of legal loopholes, persons convicted in the “Audio Recordings Affair” in Pljevlja have been appointed to new positions, while persistent efforts have been put into rendering meaningless inspection findings. Institute Alternative warns about “potential political influence” on the decisions of the Administrative Inspectorate. The Ministry of Public Administration annulled the conclusion of…
Breakdown in Communication Between Citizens and State in Provision of Public Services
13. 05. 2018.
Public services are the main point of contact between the public administration and the citizens of one country. While experts and civil society work with the issues of how professional the state administration is, is there corruption, are there regular assessments and trainings of civil servants, how does the accountability on different levels of hierarchy…
No Progress in Public Administration without Accountability for Failure to Act
10. 05. 2018.
There will be no substantial progress towards better public administration in Montenegro until there is accountability for violations of laws, failure to act and administrative silence, as assessed by the Institute Alternative (IA). At the conference “Better Public Administration in Montenegro”, organized by the IA, Milena Milošević, Public Policy Researcher in the organisation, pointed out…
Bicycle Traffic and Public Administration: A curving path to an unknown destination
04. 05. 2018.
This spring, the massive use of bicycles as a vehicle on the streets of Podgorica seems like an achievable goal. In addition to all warnings – that the citizens of the Capital are too lazy, that the car for them is indispensable status symbol, that the traffic conditions are not favorable for cycling – the…
New Law Provisions Further Restrict the Public’s Right to Know: Data under Lock and Key, Backed by the Agency
03. 05. 2018.
Non-governmental organisations point out absurdity in rejecting old requests based on new legal restrictions, while member of the Agency’s Senate, Radenko Lacmanović, warns that data can be declared tax and business secret for indefinite period of time. Again everything can be hidden from the public. This is a consequence of last year’s Amendments to the…
Reaction to the Proposed Amendments to the Law on the Prevention of Corruption
25. 04. 2018.
Councillors in Local Assemblies Not to be Heads of Public Companies and Institutions We call on the MPs not to support proposed amendments to the Law on the Prevention of Corruption, which foresee exclusion of councillors in local assemblies from the application of restrictions in the performance of public functions in public companies and public…
