Upon implementation of new Residency Act, and with upcoming local elections, GONG organizes a public debate “Who else is registered at my address?” on Monday, 6th of May 2013 from 10am to 12am at Human Rights House (Selska cesta 112c, Zagreb). „There were instances where out of 1.200 cases that were investigated, as many as hundred…
Month: April 2013
Trust is good, control is better
What kind of “engineering” of anti-corruption activism do we need, if any? How to expand the circle of actors and policies? How to strengthen the citizen-CSO’s-institutions relationship? How to ensure autonomous, professional and engaged action of the media? How to encourage professional associations and trade unions, and what to do with activism on the local…
Citizens caught in a trap of the transparency surrogate
Budget openness (transparency) provides a possibility for citizens to access complete, relevant, accurate, timely and comprehensible information on budgets of state institutions, which rightfully belong to citizens to use – it has been pointed out during a thematic discussion “Transparency of the budgetary and public procurement process” at the conference “Right to Good Administration in…
Managing agencies – without legislative wrong-doing and political pressures
In Croatia, agencies, councils, committees and similar entities appear like mushrooms after rain. Given the fact that their existence is accompanied closely by politicization, clientelism and low efficiency while communication with the public is not their strong side, the citizens wonder if there is another purpose to them apart of providing “sinecure” to the favoured…
Good governance, the glue of democracy
Citizens have the right to good administration, working for the goal of maximising common good, and not particular interests of politicians alienated from citizens. The only meaningful solution for finding a way out of this situation is the cooperation of the entire society and good governance as the glue without which there is no democracy…
Institutional and legal framework for good governance in Croatian agencies
In the past two decades the agencies in Croatia have been established following a global agencification trend endorsed by international organisations and the EU through the concepts of new public management and the regulatory state. Croatian agencies were founded without a strategic approach or legal framework, failing to incorporate elements of good governance systematically, adopting…