CoST – the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative

Climate Finance: Integrity for a Green World, will discuss the problems in climate finance, and the solutions, including our new portal prototype and guidance note. Join us on Wednesday 6th November at 1pm GMT. https://lnkd.in/gNN_6YPr

Infrastructure plays a critical role in both mitigating and adapting to water scarcity. This includes increasing capacity to store and transport water efficiently, and developing solutions to reuse wastewater, monitor droughts and improve water efficiency in key sectors such as agriculture. #InfrastructureTransparency

Countries allocate a significant part of their budget to investments in public infrastructure which should be managed to safeguard spending, strengthen efficiency and ensure value for money. CoST does this through its approach, tools and standards that facilitate data publication, stakeholder engagement and scrutiny throughout the budgeting process and across relevant actors. https://bit.ly/3v5aWlp

We're looking for a communication consultant for a regional project on open governance and infrastructure transparency in Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Costa Rica. More details here 👉 https://bit.ly/3AcB1EO

The Infrastructure Transparency Index #ITI interprets data to be applied both broadly and practically, but also in line with the context of that region. Find out more about how we're using the tool across Asia: https://bit.ly/3ig0mEw

More than 80% of the individual Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets are invested into the infrastructure sector. Only approximately 25% of the total goes towards Africa and only 8% goes to low-income countries, even though both are highly vulnerable to climate change.

CoST recommends disclosing data on contracts for the design, construction and supervision of a project and any other significant contract outsourced by the procuring entity. The top-level of the OC4IDS data model is used for project-level data, covering the identification, preparation and completion stages of a project. https://bit.ly/3bg4LUt

CoST International has launched a new Climate Finance Portal Prototype designed to demonstrate transparency, accountability, and participation in climate finance. This tool is AVAILABLE NOW 👉 https://bit.ly/3Ah0FYW

Al sumarse a CoST – the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative, el Estado Dominicano expresó su compromiso para mejorar la eficiencia y transparencia en la ejecución de los proyectos de infraestructura pública, así como la promoción al derecho de acceso a la información pública y el bienestar de la población.

Transparency is a vital governance element to ensure that infrastructure climate projects align with urgent needs and deliver the expected social returns. CoST – the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH are helping to standardize climate finance information related to infrastructure projects. Read more: https://bit.ly/3xw6OPK