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 Co-Organizes Forum in Colombia on “Power, Representation and Equality: Challenges for Women´s Political Participation”
October 21, 2014
The Organization of American States (OAS) will co-organize this Wednesday, October 22 in Bogotá the Forum “Power, Representation and Equality: Challenges for Women´s Political Participation,” in which experts will discuss the progress made and challenges remaining to the promotion of the participation and political representation of women in Colombia.
During the event, organized together with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD) and the Faculty of Finance, Government and International Relations of the Universidad Externado of Colombia, experts, legislators and representatives of civil society will debate the issue of women´s political participation.
The Forum is part of the activities of the Political Reform project of the Secretariat for Political Affairs of the OAS and takes place in the framework of a strategic alliance between the UNDP and the General Secretariat of the Organization to promote the exchange of experiences and lessons learned to contribute to the debate on political reforms in Colombia.
In parallel with this event, the OAS and the UNDP will carry out a series of conversations with Colombian legislators and other key actors currently considering and debating reforms to the law of quotas and to the campaign financing regime in the country.
WHAT: Forum in Colombia on “Power, Representation and Equality: Challenges for Women´s Political Participation”
WHEN: Wednesday, October 2014, from 08.30 to 12.00 local time (13.30 to 17.00 GMT)
WHERE: Teatro del Edificio A
Universidad Externado of Colombia
Bogotá, Colombia