We’re incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved in the past 12 months, with vital successes and progress at both an International Secretariat and membership and regional level, across core areas of our work. 

Global growth

This year, we were proud to welcome Cali, Kakamega and welcome back Zambia. They joined with commitments including enhancing tools and stakeholder capacity, using political support, civic engagements, mandates, training, framework, reviews and data publication to drive infrastructure transparency, participation and accountability.

We were also to develop a new partnership with IACA, while also being invited to participate in many new events, including TiCTeC conference, East Africa Summit, Latin American open data summit, Transparency International Latvia and more. At these events, we spoke about many areas of our expertise, including our tools and standards, our work with NGOs, our tools and standards, our work in sustainable infrastructure, community engagement and social auditing, data platforms and more. 

Private sector, institutional and civil society support

There were many institutional developments from our members in 2025, including reforms, renewed commitments and instrumental tools from members such as Malawi, Guatemala, Uganda, Ecuador, Kaduna and Sekdoni-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly, Jalisco and Belitung. 

Our private sector work included our new private sector portal, and showcasing this work at global events. 

Our members continued their work with civil society through audits, and deepening ties with academia, and also showcasing this work, including at Latin America’s largest open data summit.

Tools, standards and innovations

Our new innovations, including our new Infrastructure Transparency Index (ITI) and Independent Review manuals and our Embassy and OGP Guidance Notes supports our membership, and beyond, with important aspects of enhancing transparency, accountability and participation in infrastructure – including political support, partnerships and review and assessment of infrastructure data. 

We enhanced our work around climate through our new data standards. We showcased these at our Open Gov webinar, and have received commitments from Uganda, Malawi, Thailand and Indonesia with implementation. We also highlighted our work in the Responsible Infrastructure Investment campaign to enhance this work through pilot studies. Our guidance with the Water Integrity Network helps to detect unusual patterns in early phases of water and climate adaptation infrastructure development, and limit integrity risks in early-stage planning. 

Kaduna and Ecuador also launched new platforms, while the Dominican Republic enhanced theirs.

Member achievements

Guatemala, Malawi, Ghana and Costa Rica launched Infrastructure Transparency Indexes, while Uganda, West Lombok and Guatemala launched Independent Review reports. This work vitally highlights the success of work of these members, while helping to build on further areas for progress. 

We were also delighted to showcase the achievements of members through our Malawi impact story and Uganda impact story, as well as through several awareness days, including Spanish Language Day, World Environment Day, International Women’s Day and more.  

Partnerships

We continued to strengthen several existing partnerships, including our work in The UK Government Centre of Expertise in Green Cities, Infrastructure and Energy, and our work being highlighted by OECD in their Infrastructure Anti-Corruption Toolbox Handbook.

We were invited to participate in international events with many of our existing partners, including IABD, several with OGP, OECD, CiCA, UNODC. 

We built upon our work supporting Brazil with their Open Government Partnership Action Plan.

Looking ahead

We are excited to build upon all these areas of work, and more, in 2026. This includes more data platforms created or enhanced, more Infrastructure Transparency Indexes and independent reviews published, as well as more events – including our webinar with FIDIC on 22nd January. We’re also grateful for readers, like you, interested in our work. We’re always looking for new ways to build on the work that we do – so please do reach out via cost@infrastructuretransparency.org email if you have ways that we can work together in 2026 and beyond.