The Malawi Parliament has approved changes to the Public Procurement Act to introduce a legal mandate for disclosing data in the CoST Infrastructure Data Standard format. The first of its …
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CoST Honduras first to tackle PPP investments
Honduras has become the first country to apply the CoST approach to increasing transparency and accountability to public private partnerships (PPPs). Nearly 300 documents are now publicly available from PPP …
CoST El Salvador launches first CoST Assurance Report and signs Interim Disclosure Requirement
CoST El Salvador recently published the results from its first Assurance Report on 20 public infrastructure projects from the roads, health, energy and local development sectors. At the press conference …
Launch of CoST Uganda Scoping Study provides ‘Recipe for change’
Uganda’s Minister of Works and Transport, Monica Azuba Ntege, has called the CoST Uganda Scoping Study a ‘recipe for change’ and pledged that the Ministry of Works and Transport will …
CoST Afghanistan: Assessing the opportunities and challenges for infrastructure transparency
CoST Afghanistan launched its Scoping Study on 16 March, exploring the opportunities for and challenges to infrastructure transparency. With strong representation across government, industry and civil society, and live streamed …
Public Procurement in Africa – Harnessing its potential for socio-economic growth
CoST Malawi joined other leading experts for a high-level conference on public procurement, organised by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the World Bank. Addressing both the opportunities and challenges …