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.
Global and Regional Multilateral efforts to address challenges and opportunities for the advancement of Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
September 18, 2019
International IDEA, the Community of Democracies, the Organization of American States and the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) will hold September 19-20, 2019 the 8th High Level Meeting of the Inter-Regional Dialogue on Democracy (IRDD), and the International Conference on “Achieving Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions: The Role of Global and Regional Intergovernmental Organizations and Civil Society Actors”.
The High-Level Meeting of the IRDD seeks to bring together the global and regional organizations that are partners of this platform at the highest level to discuss the role of multilateralism, through global and regional arrangements, in the advancement of democracy, peace and development in the framework of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, with a particular focus on SDG 16+ and SDG 17; and to discuss and propose policy recommendations for the way forward.
The International Conference will bring together senior representatives and experts from global and regional organizations, representatives of civil society organizations and independent experts to analyze existing mechanisms of interaction and to develop recommendations on how to improve cooperation among different stakeholders to promote democracy and development, improve conflict prevention and peacebuilding efforts.
Both, the 8th High Level Meeting of the IRDD and the International Conference will count with the participation of high-level representatives of international and regional organizations, as well as civil society organizations, including:
Kevin Casas-Zamora, Secretary-General of International IDEA
Luis Almagro, Secretary-General of the Organization of American States
Thomas E. Garrett, Secretary-General of the Community of Democracies
Darynell Rodriguez, Executive Director, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict
Henk-Jan Brinkman, Chief, Peacebuilding Strategy and Partnerships Branch, Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, United Nations
The Inter-Regional Dialogue on Democracy (IRDD) is the only platform worldwide that brings together the main global and regional organizations at the political and technical level, and enables the engagement with civil society and other relevant stakeholders to discuss key issues related to democracy, good governance and sustainable development.
International IDEA, the Community of Democracies, the Organization of American States and GPPAC have been working continuously for several years in the creation of knowledge products, analysis and policy recommendations for the advancement of key issues related to democracy, good governance, peacebuilding and conflict resolution. This year, the outcome of this collaboration will be a discussion paper on the “Role of Global and Regional Organizations in advancing Democracy, Peacebuilding and Sustainable Development in the Framework of SDG 16+, which will become available before the end of 2019.