During a webinar hosted by CoST Uganda, the government has been urged to embrace access to information and disclosure to enhance infrastructure transparency. The webinar, which explored the role of the media in strengthening transparency, brought together participants from Africa, Asia and the UK to deliberate the key challenges faced by journalists developing infrastructure stories
Engaging the media is a key part of the CoST approach, increasing accountability by ensuring key issues in public infrastructure projects enter the public domain. It's already been a busy year for CoST teams and below are some of the headlines from 2020 so far. January Panama After a six month implementation period, Panama's formal
CoST Uganda convened a high-level workshop this week to mark the launch of its new electronic Infrastructure Monitoring Tool (e-IMT). The e-IMT provides an online platform with which to track the progress and quality of infrastructure delivery, and which can be used by procuring entities, civil society, the media and the public. It builds on
We’re delighted to announce that CoST Uganda has secured funding from DFID’s Business Integrity Initiative (BII), which helps combat issues such as corruption in order to encourage trade and investment in new markets. The funding will run from January – December 2020 and will be used by CoST Uganda to support the development of a
It’s been a busy summer for CoST teams around the world: take a look at some of the work which has made the headlines. June Philippines Following CoST representation at a UNDP workshop in Bangkok, Alex B. Cabrera, Chairman and Senior Partner at PwC Philippines, wrote in Philstar about CoST Honduras’s success in promoting a
Every year trillions of dollars of public money is invested in infrastructure, yet citizens do not often have a say in how this infrastructure is built. At last week’s OGP Summit, CoST and Hivos brought together open government advocates to hear inspiring stories from media, civil society organisations and government representatives on different ways to
