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
Stakeholder Breakfast Meeting to Relaunch the Upgraded GPP
The Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC) in partnership with Public Procurement and
Disposal of Public Assets (PPDA) are set to hold a stakeholder meeting to relaunch the
government procurement portal following the recent portal upgrades with the CoST new
sustainability modules of the Open Contracting for Infrastructure Data standard (OC4IDS), and
training for Procuring and Disposing Entities (PDEs).
The relaunch scheduled to take place on the June 11, 2026, at the PPDA offices in Kampala. It
aims to increase awareness and use of infrastructure data publication on the Government
Procurement Portal among key stakeholders- Government, Civil Society and Private Sector.
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.