March 8th is International Women’s Day, which celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women around the world. To mark International Women’s Day 2020, CoST talked to Foman …
News category: CoST Afghanistan
Institutionalising transparency: Five ways CoST promotes data disclosure
This week, team members from CoST Panama have convened a workshop at the General Directorate of Public Procurement, an organisation which is part of CoST Panama’s Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) and …
Day 2 of #AssuranceWeek2019: A year on and CoST Afghanistan shows more data is being disclosed but key concerns remain
Today CoST Afghanistan joins #AssuranceWeek2019 celebrations and publishes its Second Assurance Report. A year on from its first report launch during Assurance Week 2018 and good progress can be seen …
Citizen project monitoring in Afghanistan: Driving change from the bottom up
In October, CoST Afghanistan held a capacity building session for members of two civil society organisations (CSOs) in Balkh province, Afghanistan: the Community-Based Monitoring of the Infrastructure Sector (CBM-I) organisation …
CoST Afghanistan trains key procuring entities after CoST disclosure practise becomes mandatory
CoST Afghanistan has continued its high-level programme of engagement with a one-day capacity building event in August at the Ministry of Economy in Kabul. The event was attended by 64 …
Slow but steady: changing attitudes towards open data and transparent infrastructure in Afghanistan
CoST Afghanistan has come a long way since the programme was launched in 2016. At the time, infrastructure governance was characterised by high levels of financial waste and opaque management …