CoST – the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative (CoST) promotes transparency, participation, and accountability in the delivery of infrastructure projects. It does this through multi-stakeholder working, disclosure of data, an independent review …
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The road to stronger infrastructure governance in Scotland
By Soren Kirk Jensen, Senior Advisor, CoST On April 30 a group of Nordic and Baltic OGP member countries convene in Edinburgh to share lessons about fiscal openness, including around …
Panama wins the Alfredo Cantero CoST Award 2023, Thailand receives honourable mention
In this edition, the CoST Awards were focused on activities undertaken between mid-2022 and the end of 2023, focusing on data use, data disclosure and multistakeholder working. In March, we …
Earth Day 2024: The importance of building integrity into water infrastructure by Maria Prado
Access to clean water is a significant challenge worldwide. This is particularly so in the Global South, where the vast majority of the world’s population lives. In Uganda, roughly 8 …
CoST Managers drive change in infrastructure transparency in workshop
Managers from our 20 member programmes including affiliates gathered in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico to share their successes, challenges and lessons for increasing transparency, participation and accountability in public infrastructure. This …
Infrastructure Transparency Index 2023 and Ecuador’s challenges to make public infrastructure processes more efficient and transparent
By Manuel Gonzalez Caballero Amid the complexity of the policy context, tools can be developed to help establish a metric of transparency in the infrastructure sector. In recent years, …