Covid-19 has exposed critical gaps in healthcare and other vital infrastructure leaving few to doubt that building resilience against similar crises will require huge investment in infrastructure and services. Similarly, financial institutions have recognised the importance of infrastructure in the economic recovery. Despite this recognition, uncertainty remains on how governments will react. Could we see

Writing for Infrastructure Intelligence, CoST Executive Director Petter Matthews and Gavin English, Managing Director of IMC Worldwide, explore the mutual benefit of promoting integrity in the infrastructure sector to both British business and the UK government’s international development efforts. The UK government’s integrated review is expected to report early this year. It is examining all

Prior to the tumultuous events of 2020, CoST has been well familiar with operating in crisis settings, having been established during challenging times in Honduras, Ukraine and Uganda. In these contexts, adaptation of the initiative’s features gave CoST multi-stakeholder groups the means to rapidly improve infrastructure transparency and accountability and allow the programmes to flourish.

On Anti-Corruption Day 2020, Wednesday 09 December, CoST is delighted to launch the roll out of its Infrastructure Transparency Index (ITI). Join our webinar as we share our methodology, lessons learnt from application and the value of this tool providing unique insight to public leaders and procuring entities with potential for significant sectoral benefits. ITI