In 2020, sub-national member CoST Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana commissioned the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC) to undertake a scoping study to understand the level of infrastructure transparency, accountability and stakeholder participation across the country.

The study finds that through initiatives such as the Open Government Partnership and the Open Data Initiative alongside Ghana’s Right to Information Law, a favourable environment for transparency and disclosure exists in the country, presenting a golden opportunity for membership to transparency initiatives such as CoST. In assessing data disclosure in the sector against the CoST Infrastructure Data Standard (CoST IDS), 58% of the proactive disclosure points (data disclosed without request) are currently being published and 70% are reactively disclosed (published upon request). Among its recommendations, the study outlines how Ghana should work to address the gaps in the data and use key aspects of the CoST approach including technology, training and engaging citizens in delivery.