The second CoST Assurance Week took place in November, with CoST programmes from across four continents shining a light on public infrastructure projects in their respective countries. Here's how the media - one of the key actors responsible for informing and engaging the public - reported on CoST Assurance Week 2019. Ukraine In Ukraine,
Our second CoST Assurance Week draws to a close today, after a full week of celebrations in Malawi, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Ethiopia. The results of these assurance processes paint an encouraging picture of the stage we’re at as 2019 comes to an end, building on the unprecedented increase in disclosure
In its Sixth Assurance Report CoST Ukraine finds a high level of infrastructure data disclosed across key stages of the infrastructure project cycle, with an average of 98% of data disclosed by the procuring entity reactively (data disclosed upon request). The data was disclosed on two major road overhaul projects in the country’s capital Kyiv
The Government of Ukraine has taken a significant step towards institutionalising the CoST approach after signing a new memorandum of understanding with CoST Ukraine and Transparency International Ukraine. This formalises the transfer of CoST Ukraine’s Transparent Infrastructure online data portal to the Ministry of Infrastructure, which will now take responsibility for expanding the use of
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
CoST Ukraine has continued making strides towards greater transparency and accountability in public infrastructure by presenting new, interactive dashboards to enhance the pre-existing Transparent Infrastructure Open Data Portal. The portal was developed with support from the Transparency and Accountability in Public Administration and Services (TAPAS) project, which is jointly funded by both the UK and
