The CoST Central America countries – Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama – convened at a regional workshop in Honduras from 3 – 6 September to share experiences …
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CoST Uganda Assurance Report highlights urgent need for the CoST Infrastructure Data Standard
In August CoST Uganda launched its first Assurance Report, assessing infrastructure information disclosure from five major road sector projects in Uganda. The report finds that disclosure from the procuring entities …
Scoping Study demonstrates the need to enhance infrastructure data disclosure within the legal framework in Panama
In August 2017, CoST Panama published its Scoping Study, assessing data disclosed from 12 infrastructure projects in Panama which finds that on average only 17 data points on infrastructure projects …
CoST Guatemala trains over 1200 government officials to disclose information
CoST Guatemala has recently trained over 1200 government officials in an effort to increase the amount of information that is being disclosed to the public. This follows the publication of …
New Malawi Public Procurement Act mandates disclosure of CoST Infrastructure Data Standard
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 …
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 …