CoST works with governments, industry and local communities around the world to get better value from public infrastructure investment by increasing transparency and accountability.

CoST promotes transparency by disclosing data from public infrastructure investment. This helps to inform and empower citizens, enabling them to hold decision-makers to account. Informed citizens and responsive public institutions can lead to the introduction of reforms that will reduce mismanagement, inefficiency, corruption and the risks posed to the public from poor infrastructure.

Check out some of our success stories to see how CoST is working to deliver better value public infrastructure globally. These stories range from preventing waste in Malawi, to empowering citizens to demand accountability in Honduras and catalysing governance reforms in Guatemala. These stories showcase CoST’s breadth of impact, both by region and sector.