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.
A Citizens’ Democracy: Visions and debates from the perspective of women’s rights in the Americas (PDF - 4MB) (only available in Spanish)
An assessment of women's political citizenship in the hemisphere recognizes substantial progress over the last 60 years, in which women attained their civil and political rights, and secured the right to equality at the constitutional level.
Despite important progress in the legal and constitutional arena, with the recognition of equality of rights and non-discrimination, the changes in everyday political life do not go nearly far enough to achieve equality in political representation and meet the demands in this area from the women's movement in the region. Women's long and difficult struggle for their citizenship, which goes back more than two centuries, shows that the Enlightenment-era vision of a democracy in which women are politically excluded persists to this day.
From April 4th to 6th 2011, CIM and UN Women organized the First Hemispheric Forum "Women's Leadership for a Citizens' Democracy", with the aim of placing women's political rights at the centre of the debate on strengthening democratic governance.
The objectives of the First Hemispheric Forum were:
Bring women’s visions, experiences and aspirations to the construction of a citizens’ democracy with full equality for men and women.
Strengthen understanding of the current challenges that democratic systems face in guaranteeing the exercise of women’s substantive political citizenship.
Rocío García Gaytán, President of CIM (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Enrique Iglesias, Secretary General, Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB) (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Gladys Acosta, Chief of the Latin America and Caribbean Section, UN Women (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Muni Figueres, Ambassador of Costa Rica to the United States on behalf of the President of Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
José Miguel Insulza, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Keynote Address: The challenges of the democratic system to women’s equality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago (Presentation in PDF)
Moderator: José Miguel Insulza, Secretary General of the OAS
The agenda for a citizens’ democracy and governability in the Americas
José Antonio Ocampo, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Susana Villarán, Mayor of Lima, Peru (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Kenny D. Anthony, Former Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition of Saint Lucia (Presentation in PDF
Line Barreiro, Expert of the UN Committee for the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Sara Lovera López, Moderator of the virtual forum (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Moderator: Gillian M.S. Bristol, President of the Permanent Council of the OAS
Tuesday April 5th
The exercise of women’s political rights in the Americas
Luz Patricia Mejía, Special Rapporteur for the Rights of Women, IACHR/OAS (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Elizabeth Abi-Mershed, Deputy Executive Secretary, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) (Presentation in PDF)
Rose Mary Madden, Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIDH) (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Silvia Pimentel, Expert, Committee for the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Moderator: Virginia Vargas, International expert on women’s rights, democracy and participation
Contemporary perspectives on democracy, women’s citizenship and the State
Virginia Vargas, International expert on women’s rights, democracy and participation (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Pablo Zúñiga, OAS Specialist (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Line Barreiro, Expert of the UN Committee for the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Moderator: Daniela Payssé, President of the Special Commission on Gender and Equity, Uruguay
Miércoles 6 de abril
Parliaments and the women’s rights agenda: State of the art and current challenges
Daniela Payssé, President of the Special Commission for Gender and Equity, Uruguay (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Xanthis Suárez, Deputy of the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), Nicaragua (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Solanda Goyes, Specialist Agora Democrática/International IDEA (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Moderator: Minou Tavares, Vice-President of the of the Parliamentary Confederation of the Americas (COPA), Dominican Republic, Dominican Republic
Electoral system reform and women’s political rights
Ana María Yañez, Advisor on women’s political rights, Manuela Ramos Movement (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Cynthia Barrow-Giles, Senior lecturer in politics, University of the West Indies (Presentation in PDF
Marcela Ríos, Researcher on women and electoral systems
Moderator: Pablo Gutiérrez, Director of the Department of Cooperation in Electoral Observation (DECO), OAS
Women’s full citizenship for democracy and development in the Americas
Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Moderator: Rocío García Gaytán, President of CIM
Political parties: State of the art and stance on women’s rights
Mia A. Mottley, former Deputy Prime Minister of Barbados (Presentation in PDF)
Susana Villarán, Mayor of Lima, Peru (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Ada Rosa Del Valle Iturrez De Cappellini, President of the Commission on Population and Development, Congress of Argentina (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Vivian Roza, Coordinator, Program for the Support of Women's Leadership and Representation (PROLEAD), Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Moderator: Begoña Lasagabaster, UN Women
Recap: Challenges to advancing women’s substantive political citizenship in the Americas
Javier Sancho, Permanent Observer of Spain to the OAS (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
Rocío García Gaytán, President of the CIM (Presentation in PDF, only available in Spanish)
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