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Disclosure
CoST increases transparency by disclosing data on public infrastructure projects.
Assurance
CoST promotes accountability through an independent review of the disclosed data.
Multi-Stakeholder Group
CoST is directed by an MSG comprised of representatives of government, the private sector, and civil society.
Social accountability
Social accountability stakeholders such as the media and civil society play an important role in holding decision-makers to account.
Delivery better value public infrastructure
CoST Uganda is a multi-stakeholder initiative with participating countries spanning four continents. CoST promotes transparency by disclosing data from public infrastructure investment, helping to inform and empower citizens, and enabling them to hold decision-makers to account.
Assurance reports
We promote accountability through the CoST assurance process – an independent review of the disclosed data by assurance teams based in Uganda. The team identifies key observations and comments in relation to the items listed in the CoST Infrastructure Data Standard and put technical jargon into plain language. This allows social accountability stakeholders to easily understand the issues and hold decision-makers to account.
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Upcoming Events
22nd May event – From Data to Impact: Climate Finance and Sustainability Standards Driving Open Government
On Thursday, 22nd May, CoST will be running an Open Government Partnership (OGP) Week online event, highlighting CoST’s new sustainability and climate finance data standards.
This webinar will share learning about applying these standards at a national and sub-national level across the world – including hearing from those who are both CoST and OGP members on how they are using these standards to support open government through transparency in infrastructure.
The audience will also learn how CoST’s tools and standards can be widely used by interested governments, procuring entities, and civil society, including media. We will also discuss how the new data standards support OGP Week’s policy areas, such as fighting corruption, combating climate change, improving digital governance, and enhancing public participation.
Who is this event for?
This event is recommended for people working in government, financial institutions and procuring entities who may be looking to use the modules, as well as media, activists and civil society who may want to advocate for the use of these modules in public infrastructure projects. This event is also recommended to those with an interest in infrastructure data.
There will be a Q&A following the presentations to ensure participants can ask questions about how they can apply use of the modules as well as share their own experience in data publication, climate finance, sustainability and transparency in infrastructure.
Participating in this event is Rueben Lifuka, CoST Board Member and Chair of the Council of the International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC); Imam Putrajaya, CoST West Lombok Manager; Geoffrey Odong, CoST Uganda Manager; Maria Prado, CoST Senior Policy Advisor at CoST; and Manuel Gonzalez, CoST Latin America Senior Regional Manager.
Event details:
Thursday 22nd May at 1pm-2.30pm BST via zoom. Sign up here
Spanish translation will be available
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