Ghana currently spends $1.2 billion annually on infrastructure, equivalent to 7.5% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), yet investment in the country has not delivered full value for money. In public …
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Dominican Republic joins CoST as first Caribbean member
On Anti Corruption Day 2021 the Dominican Republic announced its membership to CoST, joining us as an affiliate and in doing so demonstrated a firm commitment to infrastructure transparency, participation …
Open government partners together, how our joint approach delivers change
Whilst rapid digitisation accelerated by Covid-19 has many benefits, it poses a threat to heightening polarisation across actors working in open government. As part of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) …
CoST at the US Summit for Democracy: The role of the private sector in Building Back with integrity
This year has seen widespread recognition of the value of infrastructure in meeting pressing global issues, from President Biden’s trillion dollar plan to the G7’s Build Back Better World to …
A year of the Infrastructure Transparency Index: CoST webinar to share key insights
In December 2020 we launched the Infrastructure Transparency Index, our flagship tool providing unique actionable insight to government, private sector and civil society on the level of infrastructure transparency and …
How do we achieve more gender-inclusive procurement? The role for data transparency
Infrastructure development has consequences across society, but all too often the voices of women and girls are missing from conversations about the roads, bridges and water pipes which will impact …