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.
Statement from the OAS General Secretariat on Nicaragua
December 21, 2020
The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) expresses its deep concern over the enactment in Nicaragua of the "Law for the Defense of the Rights of the People to Independence, Sovereignty and Self-Determination for Peace."
The initiative approved by the Legislative Assembly seeks to restrict political rights with the aim of limiting electoral competition, in a clear attack on the basic principles of a democratic state, in accordance with the provisions of the Inter-American Democratic Charter.
In effect, the attempt to hold elections while preventing the participation of those who are legitimately in opposition to the government is an attack on fundamental rights enshrined in international human rights instruments.
The Nicaraguan government, through these types of acts, would deny the Nicaraguan people the right to freely choose their representatives, transforming the 2021 elections into an imposition rather than an election.
The OAS General Secretariat reminds the government of its publicly expressed commitment to implement the recommendations of the last OAS Electoral Accompaniment Mission deployed for the 2017 municipal elections, which included measures that would undoubtedly improve democratic conditions in the country, and they differ radically from those that are now being implemented.
For the above reasons, the OAS General Secretariat calls on the government to repeal the law in question, and reiterates its call to begin a process with the various political and social actors in the country, to undertake the necessary electoral reforms that guarantee free fair and transparent elections. Likewise, the OAS General Secretariat stands ready to advise on the process of the reform of electoral norms, as was agreed at the time between the government of Nicaragua and the OAS.
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