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 Anti-Corruption Mechanism to Conduct On-Site Visit to Guatemala
March 5, 2013
A Commission from the Mechanism for Follow-Up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC) of the Organization of American States (OAS), will conduct an on-site visit to Guatemala from April 16 – 18, 2013, as part of the review process that the Mechanism is carrying out in various countries of the region, in accordance with the Methodology for Conducting On-Site Visits adopted by its States Parties.
The MESICIC visits are held with the host countries’ consent. The MESICIC is a cooperative, “inter pares” mechanism that incorporates the participation of civil society organizations, in which the legal and institutional framework of each country is reviewed for suitability with the Inter-American Convention against Corruption as well as the objective results achieved therein. Further information on the MESICIC and the Fourth Round of Review is available here.
The Commission that will visit Guatemala will be made up of the representatives from Saint Kitts and Nevis and Suriname to the MESICIC, as well as from the OAS Department of Legal Cooperation of the Secretariat for Legal Affairs, which acts as the Technical Secretariat of the MESICIC. Said commission will meet with representatives from the newly created Presidential Commission for Transparency and Electronic Government (COPRET), the Public Ministry, the Comptroller General of Accounts, and the Judicial Branch, among other government entities with the purpose of obtaining information, revealing potential difficulties in the implementation of the Inter-American Convention, and providing the States the opportunity to benefit from or to request technical assistance in the fight against corruption.
It is also expected that the commission will meet with Guatemalan civil society organizations, as well as with representatives from the private sector, professional associations and academics, in order to address the topics that are currently being reviewed in the Fourth Round of the MESICIC, as well as the implementation of the recommendations on issues such as: conflicts of interest, sworn statements of net worth and access to public information.
The information received during the on-site visit will complement the response provided by Guatemala and will serve for the preparation, consideration and adoption of the country report by the MESICIC Committee of Experts in its plenary meeting to be held in September of this year.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.