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.
Civil servants’ accountability in the focus of Public Administration Reform
17. 10. 2017.
Accountability at all levels is a key concept for establishing good governance practices in the public administration of Montenegro, as concluded at the panel discussion on the priorities of public administration reform “The end goal of the public administration reform is to make citizens’ life easier, and this is something we all need to keep…
Administrative Inspectorate controlled only the opposition?
09. 10. 2017.
Although Ministry of Public Administration claims to build up capacities of the Administrative Inspectorate, opposition-run municipalities were disproportionately a subject of inspection oversight during the last year. The Administrative Inspectorate last year conducted supervision of 107 subjects, out of which 82 were in the bodies and services of the local administration and 25 in the…
Government recruiting without any plans ahead
28. 09. 2017.
Human resource (HR) planning should answer to the important questions regarding how much staff is necessary for our state administration and in which positions. However, in the first year of implementation of the Public Administration Reform Strategy, the Government failed to provide these answers. Half a year after the Government adopted a decision to urgently…
Public statement on the session of the Public Administration Reform Council
23. 09. 2017.
The second session of the Public Administration Reform Council was held yesterday in Podgorica, in which I participated as a member, on behalf of the Institute Alternative I abstained from voting on the conclusions of the Council for the adoption of the Report on the Implementation of the PAR Strategy and Action Plan for the…
All our Failures
13. 09. 2017.
We mark the tenth anniversary of the foundation of Institute alternative this month. We started from zero. It took us five years to become a relatively stable organization and it took us ten years to secure a place among the most active and most prominent organisations with 10 employees. It is very difficult to talk…
Comments of the Institute Alternative to the Draft Law on Civil Servants and State Employees
24. 08. 2017.
The current Draft Law on Civil Servants and State Employees incorporates certain solutions that follow Institute Alternative’s earlier suggestions, especially with regard to the explicit recognition of heads of state authorities as a category within the civil service system (See: Professionalization of Senior Civil Service in Montenegro: Between State and Politics, Institute Alternative, Podgorica, November…
