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.
PRIME MINISTER OF HAITI’S TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT
ASKS FOR OAS ELECTION SUPPORT
May 6, 2004
Gérard Latortue, the Prime Minister of Haiti’s transitional government, told the Organization of American States (OAS)Permanent Council today that a major task of his government is preparing to hold “free, fair, open and democratic elections.”
Citing Article 23 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, he expressed the hope that the OAS, and its Special Mission in Haiti, would assist by providing “advisory services or assistance for strengthening and developing their electoral institutions and processes, including sending preliminary missions for that purpose.”
Prime Minister Latortue also pledged to do all that is humanly possibly to help Haitians learn to live together once again. “My government is doing everything it can to ensure all sectors of society are engaged in the democratic process,” he asserted.
Latortue welcomed the UN Security Resolution 1542 emphasis on a role for the OAS and CARICOM in promoting economic and social development in Haiti. That emphasis, he noted, “fits perfectly with my government’s perspective on the importance of regional and sub-regional cooperation.”
In his welcoming remarks, the Permanent Council’s Chairman, Ambassador Miguel Ruiz-Cabañas of Mexico, underscored the Council’s “unanimous” sentiments—despite concerns—in favor of helping Haiti, a founding OAS member, at this particularly difficult juncture in its history.
OAS Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi pointed to the importance of all parties having the freedom to organize and compete in elections. He stated, “To help solve the political challenges arising out of the May 2000 elections, the OAS exhorted the Government of Haiti, continuously, to spare no effort to guarantee the effective participation of all the country’s political currents. We repeat that exhortation today.”