General Information

CDT was founded in August 2000. Its current staff consists of 12 full time employees. CDT's managing structures consist of 3-member Executive Board, 5-member Managing Board, 3-member Supervisory Board and Assembly of 32 members. CDT is member of ENEMO - European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations, GNDEM - Global Network of Domestic Election Observers, CSAC - Civil Society Against Corruption, ACTION SEE - Regional network of organizations which promote political accountability and SELDI - South European Leadership for Development and Integrity. Organisation is currently supported by different donors, such as: British Embassy Belgrade, British Embassy Podgorica, US Embassy, EU, BTD, NATO PDD, OSI Think Tank Fund, MSI, The Rockfeller Brother Foundation, Fund for Active Citizenship, Government of Montenegro. First quarter of the year is an active fundraising period to ensure full financial stability. Average annual budget in last three years was up to 300.000,00€. Aiming to achieve financial transparency, all financial data are available on our web site. CDT's five program areas are Elections, Good Governance, EU and NATO integrations, Civil Society.  One of the most important CDT programmes is dealing with political corruption, through monitoring and analysis of financing of political parties. In previous years CDT monitored political parties financing and promoted legislative changes, which resulted in adoption of the new Law on Financing Political Parties in 2011, in the drafting of which CDT also took part.