Central
State authorities are responsible for:
Social assistance:
- Legislative framework for social welfare.
- Strategies and monitoring frameworks;
- Issuance of benefits;
- Social Card / Social Welfare Information System;
- Programmes (examples include subsidising electricity bills or most vulnerable groups; providing free textbooks at schools);
Family policy:
Social Security:
- Overall legislation;
- Social insurance;
- Social Council which adopts views regarding the development and improvement of collective bargaining, influence of economic policy and measures for its implementation on social development and stability of employment policy, wages and prices; competition and productivity; etc.
- Social dialogue between the state and unions (through the Social Council);
- Defining absolute poverty line;
- Social inclusion strategies;
- Anti-discrimination legislation and policies;
- Equal opportunities legislation and policies and participation in international equal opportunities platforms and forums;
Local
Municipalities are responsible for:
Social assistance:
- Regulating and providing for home care and help at home for the aged and the disabled;
- Establishing public services in public and child welfare;
- Implementation of social welfare provisions.
Public health:
- Implementation of primary health care.
Family policy:
- Registration of marriage.
Social Security:
- Social Council which adopts views regarding development and improvement of collective bargaining, influence of economic policy and measures for its implementation on social development and stability of the employment policy, wages and prices; competition and productivity; etc.
- In 15 municipalities there are social inclusion plans;
Responsible ministries/bodies
Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare
Sources
Family Law of Montenegro
Law on Local Self-Government
Law on Social Council
Law on Social Protection and Child Welfare
Screening Report, Social Policy and employment, Montenegro, European Commission, 2014
