CoST’s 2024 annual report showcases key impact from the CoST membership and International Secretariat. This includes achievements from each member, as well as our achievements in core thematic areas: 

• Open data and digitalisation including 8,545 projects published, Thailand demonstrating savings of $73million USD, Malawi’s platform attracting over 30,000 people and their Infrastructure Delivery Management Standard. It also includes Bogota’s work being recognised by the Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and many members publishing or beginning the process for independent reviews.
• Participation and social accountability with 1,164 stakeholders trained and 88 media stories exposing infrastructure issues. Other highlights are Jalisco’s Social Accountability Committees and Sekondi-Takoradi’s District Monitoring Teams which have improved education and health facilities.
• Infrastructure Transparency Index with four indexes published, examining $100s of millions USD in project data, which provided key insights around citizen participation, enabling environment, information publication and capacities and processes. The Index has led to direct changes, such as improving people’s safety during storms.
• Improving the investment landscape by institutionalising transparency, including 16 government actions and how independent review reports can be catalysts for government actions. The report provides examples, such as Kadua’s MoU on their data portal, Ecuador’s public infrastructure procurement regulation and Indonesia’s decrees on data publication and platforms.
• Engaging the private sector to deliver a better business environment through our work with CICA, FIDIC, our private sector survey, reforms in Uganda, Thailand’s private sector bootcamp and our private sector Board member, James N. Mwangi.
• Climate change and sustainability like our climate finance and sustainability data standards and pilot studies in Uganda and Mexico as part of the Responsible Investment campaign.
• Supporting Open Government through our work with TI Brazil, Scotland and Nordic+ countries and our partnership with OGP Ghana and the UK High Commission to support their action plan.
• Influencing global evidence, policy and tools with 16 global forums attended and collaborating with organisations such as World Bank, GIZ, OECD, OGP, WIN and WWF. This work has focused on a wide range of subjects, from the development of new tools and guidance to showcasing our work across multi-stakeholder working, data publication, educational opportunities for women, saving hundreds of millions of dollars and more.
• Strengthening the CoST network with three new members joining, our Member Managers’ Workshop and CoST awards. 

We’re proud of all that we achieved in 2024, and look forward to building on this work for years to come.