Independent monitoring, assurance, and social accountability

Application

Use independent monitoring and review process, and social accountability mechanisms across key infrastructure stages to compare disclosed commitments and project information with actual decisions and implementation, identify unexplained gaps or integrity concerns, and support follow-up, corrective action, or escalation.

Resources

• Integrity Pacts (independent monitoring)

  Tool

  Transparency International

  Transparency International. (n.d.). Integrity Pacts. Available from: https://www.transparency.org/en/tool-integrity-pacts

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• Integrity Pacts

  Tool

  Basel Institute on Governance

  Basel Institute on Governance. (n.d.). Integrity Pacts. Available from: https://collective-action.com/explore/integrity-pacts

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• Users’ Guide to Community Scorecards: A Toolkit for Companies and their Partners in the Infrastructure and Natural Resources Sectors

  Toolkit

  IFC

  International Finance Corporation. (2024). Users’ Guide to Community Scorecards: A Toolkit for Companies and their Partners in the Infrastructure and Natural Resources Sectors. Available from: https://ifcsia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IFC-Community-Scorecard-Users-Guide-2024.pdf

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• CoST Independent Review Process

  Tool

  CoST – Infrastructure Transparency Initiative

  CoST – Infrastructure Transparency Initiative. (2025). Independent Review Manual: Volume 1 – CoST Managers (Version 1.1). Available from: https://infrastructuretransparency.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Assurance-Manual-Vol-1-Final-v6.pdf
  CoST – Infrastructure Transparency Initiative. (2025). Independent Review Manual: Volume 2 – Professional Teams (Version 1.1). Available from: https://infrastructuretransparency.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Assurance-Manual-Volume-2-v5.pdf

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• Independent monitor terms of reference (ToR) and follow-up tracker template

  Template

  Transparency International

  Transparency International. (2014). Integrity Pacts in public procurement: An implementation guide. Available from: https://knowledgehub.transparency.org/product/integrity-pacts-in-public-procurement-an-implementation-guide

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• Independent monitoring / Integrity Pacts

  Guideline

  Transparency International

  Transparency International. (2016). Integrity pacts: A how-to guide from practitioners. Transparency International. Available from: https://www.transparency.org/en/publications/integrity-pacts-a-how-to-guide-from-practitioners

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• Infrastructure Transparency Index

  Tool

  CoST – Infrastructure Transparency Initiative

  CoST – Infrastructure Transparency Initiative. (n.d.). Infrastructure Transparency Index (ITI). Infrastructure Transparency Index. Available from: https://infrastructuretransparencyindex.org/
  CoST – Infrastructure Transparency Initiative. (2026, April). Impact report. Available from: https://infrastructuretransparency.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ITI-Impact-English-v7.pdf
  CoST – Infrastructure Transparency Initiative. (2025, February). Infrastructure Transparency Index manual (Version 1.1). Available from: https://infrastructuretransparency.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ITI-Manual-2025.pdf

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• Social Accountability Guidance Note

  Template

  CoST – Infrastructure Transparency Initiative

  CoST – Infrastructure Transparency Initiative. (2021). Guidance Note: Social Accountability. Available from: https://infrastructuretransparency.org/resource/guidance-note-social-accountability/

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