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 Honduras welcomed the CoST Board for a jam-packed week to showcase the successes and learnings from their national programme and hold the 21st CoST Board meeting. From roundtables with the President of the Republic of Honduras and regional donors to project site visits and citizen forums, CoST Honduras displayed the breadth and depth of
CoST Honduras and CoST Malawi were both winners at the Open Government Awards. Celebrating civil society initiatives that use government data to bring concrete benefits, CoST Honduras was awarded third prize and CoST Malawi received an Honourable Mention at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Summit 2016 in Paris, France. Under the theme of ‘Making Transparency
CoST Honduras and CoST Malawi are sharing lessons learnt to strengthen transparency in public infrastructure globally. CoST Honduras hosted CoST Malawi in Tegucigalpa for a peer-exchange programme to build international synergies and share insights from their experience locally. CoST Malawi delegation meet CoST Honduras representatives (left to right): Lyford Gideon, CoST Malawi Country Manager;
The Minister of Infrastructure, Roberto Ordoñez, has praised CoST Honduras for increasing transparency and accountability within national public infrastructure and committed to implementing CoST’s recommendations. The announcement was made as part of a series of events organised by CoST Honduras to launch its second Assurance Report; CoST Assurance has increased transparency in the country, improving
CoST Honduras has signed an agreement with 90 citizen transparency commissions to increase transparency and accountability in public infrastructure. As part of the agreement CoST Honduras will share information on infrastructure data and assurance, in addition to providing workshop training on SISOCS, a subsystem of the national e-procurement portal. SISOCS allows citizens to access information on the construction,
