In recent months we have seen infrastructure jump to the forefront of the geo-political map following the announcement of the G7’s Build Back Better World (B3W) initiative and the launch …
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Our five-year plan for success, strengthening economies and improving lives
By Charlotte Broyd and John Hawkins We are delighted to present our final CoST Business Plan 2021 – 2025, the most ambitious and researched we have produced, appropriate to the …
Our transparency index journey
By John Hawkins, CoST Programme Director Today, CoST is excited to publish the ground-breaking Infrastructure Transparency Index Manual a tool to help government, private sector and civil society understand the …
Transparency, participation and accountability as the building blocks of change
Joanne Coysh, CoST Strategic Adviser outlines the participatory process she facilitated to develop our new, robust Theory of Change. A year ago this week, we initiated a participatory review engaging …
Creating a data standard for infrastructure transparency: putting it to use
Open Data Services (ODS) publishes the third blog in its series on the Open Contracting for Infrastructure Data Standard (OC4IDS). In Part One, ODS made the case for an infrastructure …
Creating a data standard for infrastructure transparency: building it
In the first part of this blog series, Open Data Services made the case for the Open Contracting for Infrastructure Data Standard (OC4IDS) — the joint CoST and Open Contracting …