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.
Working visit to Brussels
23. 05. 2014.
Our researcher, Dina Bajramspahić, participated in the meetings with Dirk Lange and other officials of the European Commission (EC), as one of the representatives of the Coalition for Monitoring the Accession Negotiations within the Chapter 23. Within the working visit to Brussels organised between May 19 and 22, 2014, five representatives of the Coalition of…
Unconvincing view of political impartiality in the state administration
21. 05. 2014.
Replies to our initiatives addressed to the Ethics Committee and the Administrative Inspection related to the nomination of civil servants for local elections indicate passivity of these institutions and the vagueness of legal regulations governing political impartiality of civil servants. The Ethics Committee and the Administrative Inspection are of the opinion that running for local…
Press release: Citizens of Podgorica can’t access the electoral lists
13. 05. 2014.
Less than two weeks before election day, the Electoral Commission of the Capital Podgorica has not yet made public the electoral lists containing names of nominees for councilors of the City Parliament. As stipulated by the Law on Election of Councilors and Members of the Parliament „municipal election commission shall have its website to immediately…
Press release: Is there political will for true participation in OGP?
09. 05. 2014.
Montenegro, a member of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), is late with implementing its OGP obligations and still has not delivered the first version of its second Action Plan to the OGP Secretariat. Although a member of the global Open Government Partnership initiative (OGP), Montenegro is late with meeting its obligations and still has not…
Press release: Electoral lists to be checked – Public servants or politicians?
02. 05. 2014.
The electoral lists for local elections in Podgorica contain names of persons occupying senior positions within public administration, which represents violation of the Law on Civil Servants and State Employees and points out to politicization of state administration that is still present. Civil servants and state employees are obliged to restrain from public demonstration of…
Commentary on the draft Law on wages in the public sector
22. 04. 2014.
Institute Alternative (IA) in its 2008 analysis on wages and rewards policies in Montenegro’s public administration recommended that one legal act should regulate wages in regulatory bodies and local and state administration authorities. We thus support the decision of Ministry of Finance to draft the Law on wages of public sector employees, which would be…
