Four years ago, CoST opened membership to allow cities and regions to become CoST members. This advancement recognised the important role that local governments have in infrastructure, and the need to drive transparency and anti-corruption at that level. In that time, cities of Sekondi-Takoradi in Ghana and Bogota in Colombia, the region of Jalisco in
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The impact of the CoST, The Transparency Initiative, can be measured in different dimensions. On this opportunity, we will explore a vision to reflect on the challenges ahead, especially in the possibilities of strengthening the infrastructure disclosure platforms. During the last decade, CoST has promoted and supported the design and implementation of 12 disclosure platforms
Helping emerging economies to tackle the climate emergency is extremely significant. In the light of the risks to these funds, the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative (CoST) with our partners, Engineers Against Poverty (EAP), held a virtual forum which concluded that it is critical to open climate finance to public scrutiny as a key action to ensuring
By Olive Kabatwairwe, CoST Africa Regional Manager Africa needs USD $100 billion a year for infrastructure development, but only $45 billion is being mobilized annually. Governments don’t have the capacity to deliver infrastructure investments single handedly, therefore, they need to work with the private sector. These engagements are often curtailed with fraud, bid rigging, influence
CoST, the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative, has recently socialized the Infrastructure Transparency Index (ITI) in Asian countries, as a tool that can be useful in order to make public infrastructure projects transparent and improve the quality of life of citizens. The ITI was presented to a group of key stakeholders to provides them with quality information
