The Open Contracting Partnership (OCP) convened a meeting in London recently to discuss its draft ‘Open Contracting Principles’. The OCP Steering Group invited a range of external participants to provide critical feedback on the Principles and consider how and when they should be launched. The need for the Principles was identified by a broad based
The European Commission estimates that up to 120 billion euros could be lost each year to corruption in the 27 Member States of the EU. This was revealed by Cecilia Malmstrom, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, during the Second Regional Workshop on the EU Anti-Corruption Report held in Gothenburg in March. The EU is planning
There are urgent calls from within Latin America for improved transparency and accountability throughout the region. This was the view of participants at a CoST seminar co-hosted by EUROSOCIAL and CoST in London this month. The half day event was attended by senior delegates from three Latin American countries and included representatives from the Secretariat
The CoST International Secretariat met with construction stakeholders in Kiev recently to discuss the possibility of establishing a CoST Ukraine national programme. The meetings were convened by the World Bank country office and included representatives from government, industry and civil society. Ukraine requires significant investment in its physical infrastructure to help improve its business environment
The CoST Vietnam Bridging Phase was successfully completed at the end of 2012. During this period, that marks the transition between the pilot project and full roll-out of the programme, information was disclosed from 9 projects consisting of 11 contract packages in CPC offices, newspapers, the CoST Vietnam Website and local radio stations. The new
The CoST Board recently appointed Professor George Ofori and Mr. Per Nielsen as Directors and Trustees of CoST. Professor Ofori is based at the National University of Singapore where he is Director of the M.Sc. (Environmental Management) programme and Co-Director of the Centre for Project Management and Construction Law. Mr. Nielsen is a leading figure