CoST proudly announced the winners of the 2024 CoST Awards at a ceremony in London, UK on Thursday 27th February.
The awards celebrate CoST – Infrastructure Transparency Initiative’s members across three continents who have promoted transparency, participation, and accountability to help achieve better lives from better infrastructure over the past year.
CoST is honoured to recognise achievements across several categories. The award winners were:
- Participation Category – Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
- Transparency Category – Thailand
- OC4IDS publication – Jalisco, Mexico (2nd place Sekondi-Takoradi, 3rd place Malawi)
- Outstanding Award (Alfredo Cantero Award) – Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
- Distinction to Aida Martinez, CoST Panama Manager, recognising her efforts to promote transparency, participation and accountability.
Isaac Aidoo, manager of CoST Sekondi-Takoradi, said “It’s a great honour for me and my colleagues from Africa, the Multi Stakeholder Group (MSG) of Sekondi-Takoradi, and Ghana’s National Open Governance Programme (OGP) Steering Committee to receive the prestigious Outstanding Award named in memory of Alfredo Cantero (1973-2019), a much respected former CoST Board member. Building networks and collaboration among like-minded partners has been the hallmark for our programme in Ghana, and this was recognised through the coveted prize we received.”
CoST International Secretariat are proud of all our members for their continued work in strengthening infrastructure transparency, accountability and participation. We look forward to continuing to work alongside our members to build upon this success at the 2025 awards!