Our core features

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.

Announcing the 1st Infrastructure Transparency Index (ITI) in Uganda

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Ray of Sunshine, 4th Assurance Report in Uganda

The First Assurance Report 2017

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.

Recent News

Improved Public Procurement Inclusion in Uganda – CoST Uganda

June 7, 2024 admin

For many years, public procurement in Uganda has been skewed toward the privileged category of…

Infrastructure Transparency Dilemma A Call To Action

May 22, 2024 admin

Transparency has been conceived by different people and it’s believed to be detrimental to stakeholders’…

Disclosure gap and its implications on quality of infrastructure project delivery in Uganda

April 30, 2024 admin

Disclosure is simply defined and understood as the process of making information about publicly financed…

Upcoming Events

Development of the Infrastructure Transparency Index ITI)
31 August, 2024

The Index will run for a period of two months across 30 pilot Procuring and Disclosing Entities, sampling 60 Public infrastructure projects from the pilot entities. Stakeholders and especially the PDEs in the inaugural ITI are encouraged to embrace this intervention.

See Our Impact

I have been inspired by Martin Luther King and how he inspired a movement. I have learned that a cause must be organic; if it is to have an impact it must belong to those who join the movement and not those who lead it,
Simon Sinek.