CoST Honduras held the third annual Journalism Prize for Transparency in Infrastructure on 29 May, with a virtual event streamed live on Facebook. The prize recognises investigative journalists in Honduras - key social accountability actors - for the top three stories uncovering mismanagement in public infrastructure. Alex Flores from El Mundo won first prize this
CoST Honduras hosted a webinar this week, attended by representatives from the private sector, civil society, media, Citizen Transparency Commissions (CTCs) and academia. In total 50 people from half a dozen countries across Latin America participated, with a panel consisting of representatives from CoST Honduras’s multi-stakeholder group (MSG) and Ivonne Ardón, the Commissioner of Honduras’s
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 Honduras publishes its Sixth Assurance Report today, which assesses three public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects valued at a significant US $277 million and revealing an average data disclosure rate of 68.2% for the projects. While this may seem relatively low when compared to levels found in the fifth and fourth assurance reports (98.1% and
A site visit carried out by CoST Honduras has highlighted a lack of transparency, after a team of experts and students found inconsistencies along a major road upgrade on the Comayagua Highway. Representatives from CoST Honduras, alongside 25 delegates from CoST Honduras’s workshop on monitoring public infrastructure projects, visited the site to report on the
