The second CoST Assurance Week took place in November, with CoST programmes from across four continents shining a light on public infrastructure projects in their respective countries. Here's how the media - one of the key actors responsible for informing and engaging the public - reported on CoST Assurance Week 2019. Ukraine In Ukraine,
Our second CoST Assurance Week draws to a close today, after a full week of celebrations in Malawi, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Ethiopia. The results of these assurance processes paint an encouraging picture of the stage we’re at as 2019 comes to an end, building on the unprecedented increase in disclosure
CoST El Salvador publishes its Third Assurance Report today, which evaluates 14 projects across the country. The report shows a strong overall disclosure rate of 73.5%, which maintains the disclosure levels of its Second Assurance Report and indicates positive attitudes towards CoST are becoming embedded within procuring entities. However, it also raises concerns over time
It’s been a busy summer for CoST teams around the world: take a look at some of the work which has made the headlines. June Philippines Following CoST representation at a UNDP workshop in Bangkok, Alex B. Cabrera, Chairman and Senior Partner at PwC Philippines, wrote in Philstar about CoST Honduras’s success in promoting a
From 12 – 16 November CoST held its first Assurance Week, offering the opportunity for us to delve into CoST Assurance, explain its full benefits and focus on the assurance reports of five of our members published throughout the week. Each report launch took different formats but joined our core stakeholders to raise awareness on
Today CoST El Salvador presents the results of its second assurance process which includes 20 infrastructure projects equating to a significant US$ 58.6 million and finds that procuring entities are disclosing information on a predominately reactive, rather than proactive, basis. The CoST El Salvador Second Assurance Report focusses on projects from road, school, market, water, tourism
