We’re pleased to announce that CoST Panama has received a grant of US $400,000 from the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Multi-Donor Trust Fund. The OGP Multi-Donor Trust Fund is a joint initiative between OGP and the World Bank, designed to support activities that help to address implementation gaps in OGP action plans. Panama is currently
Every year trillions of dollars are wasted in the infrastructure sector due to corruption, mismanagement and inefficiency. Since 2012, CoST has been working to address this issue and build stronger economies, better quality infrastructure, greater trust and a fairer playing field. To help further the impact of our work, at the 6th OGP Summit last
March CoST Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly - STMA marks open governance week - Ghana News Agency CoST Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly - STMA joins CoST to enhance infrastructure transparency - Ghana News Agency CoST Honduras - CoST Honduras signs cooperation agreement with the College of Journalists - Proceso Digital (Spanish) CoST Honduras - CoST Honduras provides 25 scholarships
January CoST Honduras - The third class of social auditors has graduated from the School of Social Audit in Infrastructure (in Spanish) Reporteros de Investigación CoST Panama - Infrastructure transparency disclosure platform debate (in Spanish) Abierto - Eco TV CoST Panama - New platform to report bids (in Spanish) La Prensa CoST Panama - Antai launches transparency platform in public
CoST Panama, together with the National Authority of Transparency and Access to Information (ANTAI), has launched a new data disclosure platform for public infrastructure projects. The new platform ‘PanamaenObras’ will support the PanamaCompra portal, which currently requires 11 items or data points of the CoST Infrastructure Data Standard (CoST IDS) to be disclosed for each
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
