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.
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
A Use-Case Workshop: Mapping and Reviews with the New CoST Standard
In partnership with Africa freedom of information centre and Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority, we are set for a use case workshop on the 13th November 2025 at PPDA offices to Review our mapping report using the new CoST Infrastructure Data Standard (OC4IDS).
The workshop shall convene public officials, oversight bodies, the civil society and private sector in the CoST multistakeholder working approach, with various discussions centered on level of public infrastructure data publication on the Government procurement portal in-line with international standards developed by CoST International with major focus on sustainable climate finance investments, environmental impacts, institutional frameworks, social safeguards, and economical modules to be considered for Upgrade of government procurement portal -GPP.
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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.