In 2024, CoST Uganda announced an 11% overall improvement in infrastructure transparency, as measured by its second Infrastructure Transparency Index (ITI). The assessment evaluated 30 government entities responsible for 58 projects across transport, health, education, water, and energy sectors. In Uganda, the ITI plays a crucial role. It serves as an evidence-based tool to assess how well public entities manage infrastructure projects, encouraging continuous improvement. The ITI not only benchmarks transparency practices but also stimulates conversations and actions among stakeholders, leading to tangible changes like improved drainage systems or enhanced data publication that directly benefit communities.   The index focused on four critical areas of assessing infrastructure transparency levels: the enabling environment, capacities and processes for delivering public infrastructure projects, citizen participation, and information disclosure. The results of the index highlight that Uganda’s national ITI score improved significantly, rising from 20.8% in 2021 to 32.26% in 2024, indicating strong progress in promoting infrastructure transparency. 

This improvement suggests that results from the previous ITIs were acted upon. One such example in Uganda was where the ITI results informed decisions to improve the drainage system across the divisions by the Kampala Capital City Authority.

Findings revealed improvements across all assessed dimensions from 2021 to 2024. While the enabling environment saw a modest increase from 41.4% to 43.5%, significant growth was observed in capacities and processes, more than doubling from 13.5% to 29.78% (a 120.6% increase and the largest percentage improvement). Citizen participation also showed substantial progress, rising from 13.8% to 33.65%, and data publication improved notably from 18.4% to 26.81%.

The summary and comprehensive report is available on the Infrastructure Transparency Index website.:

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