As CoST Technical Adviser, Hamish supports current and prospective CoST activities in Ukraine, Georgia and across Africa, including in-country discussions with interested parties in government, industry and civil society and training multi-stakeholder group members and assurance teams. Hamish is a Civil Engineer, Planner and Trainer with over 40 years’ experience of working with others to optimise
As Head of Members and Affiliates for CoST, Evelyn engages potential members and supports and provides technical assistance to current members on the design and implementation of their programmes. Prior to her role as Head of Members and Affiliates, Evelyn was CoST Honduras Manager and she led the implementation of strategic and operational plans.
Petter has been involved in CoST since its origins and he has led CoST International since 2011. As Executive Director, he has overall responsibility for CoST policy, strategy and programme delivery. In addition to his role in CoST, Petter is Executive Director of Engineers Against Poverty, an independent NGO that works to influence infrastructure
Since 2008 John has played a central role in CoST, first as Policy Adviser to the International Secretariat during the CoST pilot, then as Programme Manager, Head of Programmes and now as Programmes Director. In his current position John is responsible for strategic development and overseeing member programmes. John is a specialist in UK
Social accountability stakeholders such as the media, civil society and academia play an important role in holding decision-makers to account. CoST works with these stakeholders to to promote the use of data published by governments and the use of the findings from its independent review (assurance) process so that they can put key issues in the public
An independent review of the published data, known as assurance, is appointed by CoST programmes. The teams look at the data published through the disclosure process and identify key issues of concern, gaps in the data and areas of good practice. They put technical jargon into plain language, turning data into compelling information. This allows
