Our online event will facilitate the space to share the experience on how local (sub-national) governments have tackled Infrastructure challenges through Open Government Partnership (OGP) values of transparency, accountability, citizen participation and digital innovation. We aim to inspire the OGP local cohort facing similar challenges around the world to develop strong commitments that can help
This latest addition to the suite of CoST Guidance Notes sets out the objectives, tasks, approach and reporting requirements necessary for undertaking a Scoping Study in support of a potential or actual CoST programme. The scope and depth, and hence time and budget, required of a Scoping Study will depend on the circumstances under which
Ghana currently spends $1.2 billion annually on infrastructure, equivalent to 7.5% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), yet investment in the country has not delivered full value for money. In public procurement more broadly, inefficiency and corruption is rife and in the infrastructure sector this leads to profound waste and poor quality projects. In July 2020,
In December 2020 we launched the Infrastructure Transparency Index, our flagship tool providing unique actionable insight to government, private sector and civil society on the level of infrastructure transparency and processes to improve participation and accountability in national and sub-national contexts. The tool generates a score for procuring entities of infrastructure projects as well as
Tomorrow marks Open Data Day, an annual celebration of open data globally. In the spirit of the Day, we reflect on how the Open Contracting for Infrastructure Data Standard (OC4IDS) is helping CoST members to move towards more effective infrastructure project monitoring. In Honduras, procuring entities publishing data on the SISOCS and SISOCS APP platforms must
As 2020 draws to a close, we reflect on what has been a tumultuous year – but one in which we have also seen renewed calls for social justice and the desire to ‘’build back better’’ after the life-changing events of recent months. CoST teams globally have worked to hold governments to account as the
