Each year the OAS Secretary General publishes a proposed Program-Budget for the coming calendar year. The OAS General Assembly meets in a Special Session to approve the Program-Budget. Find these documents from 1998-2013 here.
Each year in April, the OAS Board of External Auditors publishes a report covering the previous calendar year’s financial results. Reports covering 1996-2016 may be found here.
Approximately six weeks after the end of each semester, the OAS publishes a Semiannual Management and Performance Report, which since 2013 includes reporting on programmatic results. The full texts may be found here.
Here you will find data on the Human Resources of the OAS, including its organizational structure, each organizational unit’s staffing, vacant posts, and performance contracts.
The OAS executes a variety of projects funded by donors. Evaluation reports are commissioned by donors. Reports of these evaluations may be found here.
The Inspector General provides the Secretary General with reports on the audits, investigations, and inspections conducted. These reports are made available to the Permanent Council. More information may be found here.
The OAS has discussed for several years the real estate issue, the funding required for maintenance and repairs, as well as the deferred maintenance of its historic buildings. The General Secretariat has provided a series of options for funding it. The most recent document, reflecting the current status of the Strategy, is CP/CAAP-3211/13 rev. 4.
Here you will find information related to the GS/OAS Procurement Operations, including a list of procurement notices for formal bids, links to the performance contract and travel control measure reports, the applicable procurement rules and regulations, and the training and qualifications of its staff.
The OAS Treasurer certifies the financial statements of all funds managed or administered by the GS/OAS. Here you will find the latest general purpose financial reports for the main OAS funds, as well as OAS Quarterly Financial Reports (QFRs).
Every year the GS/OAS publishes the annual operating plans for all areas of the Organization, used to aid in the formulation of the annual budget and as a way to provide follow-up on institutional mandates.
Here you will find information related to the OAS Strategic Plan 2016-2020, including its design, preparation and approval.
OAS MONITORS REPORT ON CONGRESSIONAL AND MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
May 23, 2002
In a preliminary report to the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States, Diego Paz Bustamante, chief of the OAS Electoral Observation Mission to the Dominican Republic, has called for a simpler voting system.
Assessing the congressional and municipal elections that the OAS monitored in the Caribbean nation this past May 16, Paz Bustamante said an easier system was needed to encourage more people to vote while simplifying the work of the elections agency. He observed as well that the current closed electoral college system complicated the voting process with unnecessarily long lines for voter identification cards to be shown before ballots can be cast.
Problems were noted with the posting of results, vote counting and logistical aspects of the election process in certain parts of the country, and Paz Bustamante, who is Senior Specialist at the OAS Unit for the Promotion of Democracy, said the OAS Mission hoped that "the Central Electoral Board would address and resolve these concerns, and that by examining those experiences, it would come up with effective measures for future elections."
Ambassador Ramón Quiñones, Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic, thanked the OAS and the observers. He said the Organization and its election observers have made an important contribution that has helped strengthen his country's democratic process by making it more transparent and seen by the citizenry as more reliable.
Presided over by Ambassador Margarita Escobar of El Salvador, the Permanent Council Chair, the daylong session also took up several reports that will be presented to the 32nd regular session of the OAS General Assembly, which takes place in Barbados from June 2 to 4.
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