Today, CoST Guatemala publishes its Seventh Assurance Report which evaluates 22 public infrastructure projects and finds a 20% increase in disclosed data up from its last report. The report finds that, on average, procuring entities are disclosing 64% of the CoST Infrastructure Data Standard (CoST IDS) adapted to the Guatemalan context which uses 31 data
We are delighted to launch our first CoST Assurance Week (#CoSTAssuranceWeek) from 12 - 16 November. The week offers the chance for us to delve into the assurance process - one of our four key features - and highlight how it impacts on promoting accountability, showing citizens exactly how their tax money is spent on
The CoST Central America countries - Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama – convened at a regional workshop in Honduras from 3 - 6 September to share experiences and discuss challenges and opportunities facing CoST and how best to strengthen the initiative in the region. Sponsored by the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office
CoST Guatemala has recently trained over 1200 government officials in an effort to increase the amount of information that is being disclosed to the public. This follows the publication of the sixth CoST Guatemala Assurance report which highlighted that only 43% of the IDS was being disclosed on the government's e-procurement platform Guatecompras. This was
The Guatemalan Congress of the Republic, the country’s unicameral legislature, has ratified a law which mandates disclosure of 31 of the 40 CoST Infrastructure Data Standard (IDS) data points through Guatecompras, the national e-procurement portal. In all cases, for all projects, across all Procuring Entities (PEs), this is a tremendous achievement which will only strengthen
CoST Guatemala has published its fifth assurance report, featuring analysis of over thirty public sector infrastructure projects across roads, water, sanitation, schools, hospitals, municipal buildings, sports facilities and parks. According to Guatemalan law, the disclosure of 31 data points from the CoST Infrastructure Data Standard (IDS) is required via the national e-procurement portal, Guatecompras. Initially,
