Transparency
To promote transparency, accountability and value for money in the delivery of public infrastructure through increasing access to and interpretation of disclosed project and contract data.
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,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.
Delivering 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, 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.
Recent news
Government aligns portal to the CoST Standard (OC4IDS), five years later
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Breaking the barriers to infrastructure journalism: CoST Uganda joins ACME to build capacity of
The media plays a great role in information dissemination, but often times journalists are put to ...
CoST Uganda in the Media_2021
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Upcoming events
Development of the Infrastructure Transparency Index ITI)
31st May 2021 - 31st July 2021
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.