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 Organizes International Seminar on Modernization of Municipal Management
May 28, 2013
The Organization of American States (OAS) will organize, this Thursday and Friday, May 30 and 31, 2013, the International Seminar on Modernization of Municipal Management in Guadalajara, Mexico, with the participation of mayors from municipalities in Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Mexico, and experts in citizen participation, electronic government, public administration, transparency and access to information.
The event, co-organized by the Secretariat for Political Affairs of the OAS, through the Department for Effective Public Management, together with the Mexican state of Jalisco and the International Development Bank of Latin America (CAF), looks to generate a dialogue through successful experiences and best practices in municipal management, as well as spreading concrete tools that contribute to a more transparent, efficient, effective and participative public administration, in service to the citizenry. The inauguration of the event will feature addresses from the General Secretary of the government of Jalisco, Arturo Zamora Jiménez; the Secretary for Political Affairs of the OAS, Kevin Casas-Zamora; and the Corporate Director for Institutional Development and Special Issues of the International Development Bank, Víctor Rico.
Among the issues that will be discussed are the promotion of transparency and access to public information, the incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies (ITCs) in municipal administrations, “Smart City” strategies, and the promotion of the use of tools for strategic management, institutional design and performance management, among others. The seminar is aimed at municipal government authorities, associations of municipalities, political leaders, managers and public servants, municipal technical teams, professionals, practitioners, researchers and academics interested in the modernization of municipal management to strengthen democratic governance.
WHAT: International Seminar on Modernization of Municipal Management
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