PAR Monitor Report North Macedonia: Organisation, Accountability and Oversight – 2024/2025
This report assesses the accountability and transparency of state administration by observing two aspects: 1) reactive transparency – freedom of information, and 2) proactive transparency. The first aspect assesses the extent to which effective reactive transparency is ensured through enforceable free access to information rights, institutional oversight, compliant responses by public authorities, effective sanctions, and […]
PAR Monitor Report North Macedonia: Organisation, Accountability and Oversight – 2024/2025
This report assesses the accountability and transparency of state administration by observing two aspects: 1) reactive transparency – freedom of information, and 2) proactive transparency. The first aspect assesses the extent to which effective reactive transparency is ensured through enforceable free access to information rights, institutional oversight, compliant responses by public authorities, effective sanctions, and […]
PAR Monitor Report North Macedonia: Policy Development and Coordination 2024/2025
This report assesses the transparency and inclusiveness of four aspects of policy development and coordination: 1) transparency and inclusiveness of government decision-making process, 2) transparency of government planning and reporting, 3) transparency and inclusiveness of policy making and legislation development process, and 4) transparency and inclusiveness of policy implementation, evaluation, and parliamentary scrutiny. The first […]
Western Balkan PAR Monitor: Policy Development and Coordination
This report assesses the transparency and inclusiveness of four aspects of policy development and coordination: 1) transparency and inclusiveness of government decision-making process, 2) transparency of government planning and reporting, 3) transparency and inclusiveness of policy making and legislation development process, and 4) transparency and inclusiveness of policy implementation, evaluation, and parliamentary scrutiny. The first […]
Between Merit System and Discretion: Challenges of the Draft Law on Senior Civil Servants
This brief reflects on the developments as of February 2026, when, after a prolonged period of delay and uncertainty, a broad and substantive discussion on the draft law was finally opened. From the very beginning of the law’s drafting, EPI has continuously provided comments and recommendations through its public administration reform monitoring reports and policy […]
PAR Monitor Report North Macedonia: Public Financial Management 2024/2025
Compared to the previous monitoring cycle North Macedonia has made progress in strengthening transparency and efficiency in public financial management (PFM), public procurement, and state audit, but significant challenges remain in inclusiveness, implementation, and usability of information. While strategic frameworks support transparency, citizen participation in budget formulation is minimal. Legal provisions allow public input during […]
Western Balkan PAR Monitor: Public Financial Management
The assessment of the transparency and openness of public financial management focuses on four critical aspects – 1) inclusiveness and transparency of the budget formulation process, 2) availability and comprehensiveness of budgetary documentation, 3) transparency and competitiveness of the public procurement system, and 4) openness and transparency of supreme audit institutions’ work. The first aspect […]
Western Balkan PAR Monitor: Public service and human resource management – 2024/2025
The assessment of the transparency, openness and meritocracy of public service and human resource management focuses on five critical aspects – 1) transparency of statistics and reports on civil service, 2) transparency of temporary hiring in the civil service, 3) transparency and merit principle of recruitment process, 4) merit-based selection and protection of top managers […]
PAR Monitor Report North Macedonia: Public service and human resource management – 2024-2025
Since the last WeBER monitoring cycle, no progress has been made in this policy area; instead, a slight decline has been noted. The Government neither regularly prepares nor publishes reports on the civil service, and available data are not in open formats. However, the new Law on Administrative Servants (LAS) and the Law on Public […]
Service Delivery in North Macedonia: Results of the Exit Polling
Under the WeBER 3.0 project’s Small Grant Facility, the European Policy Institute – Skopje (EPI) signed grant contracts with three civil society organisations to enhance citizen engagement in public administration reform (PAR) at the local level. The Consumers Organisation of Macedonia (COM) worked on digitalising and modernising communal services in Ohrid; Blink 42-21 developed a […]