The UK Department for International Development has agreed to provide £100,000 in financial support to the CoST Ethiopia  Programme. The funding will enable the CoST Ethiopia Multi-Stakeholder Group to increase the number of procuring entities disclosing information on to the Public Procurement & Property Administration Agency website. A new website has recently been developed as

CoST Ethiopia has partnered with the Ethiopian Federal Public Procurement and Property Administration (FPPPA) for a major upgrade of its’ website. The upgrade has increased the FPPPA website’s capacity, made it more user-friendly and incorporated the CoST disclosure format. The upgraded version and new disclosure format are expected to firmly enhance the implementation of the

The disclosure of Project Information and an Assurance Team Report on a 33km rural road between Gindebir to Gobensa in Southern Ethiopia, has led to an estimated cost saving of 40m birr or $2.35m. The Assurance Team highlighted that the cost estimate at the design stage was 26m birr per km, whilst the feasibility study