Kaduna in Nigeria launched their first Infrastructure Transparency Index (ITI) – a global tool developed by CoST to assess how transparent, participatory and accountable infrastructure systems are from planning through to delivery, and which crucially makes practical recommendations for improvement.

The scores reflect Kaduna’s strong progress on enabling environment and capacities and processes, particularly their regulatory framework and digital information tools (thanks to their new portal).

This Index also demonstrates opportunities for growth in citizen participation and information publication – including with project preparation and supervision and execution of contract implementation and procurement. The ITI made practical recommendations for future improvemenets including formalising data publication procedures across all ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) and establishing citizen engagement units at MDAs.

Muhammad Sani Kassim, CSO member of the Multi-Stakeholder Group said “Key learning points from this Index include co-creation principles with a good working relationship between government, civil society, private sector and other communities who benefits from these projects. The impact is our ability to take these key recommendations to improve and strengthen the systems for procurement.”

Click here to watch a short video by Kaduna on their ITI: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OUIojIU8MZk

For more information on Kaduna’s ITI results: https://infrastructuretransparencyindex.org/countries/