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.
The President of Nicaragua, Enrique Bolaños, today renewed his commitment to a national referendum to afford the people a chance to decide whether they want constitutional amendments being pushed by the National Assembly. He told the Organization of American States’ (OAS) Permanent Council that the Assembly’s two major political parties “have concentrated hegemonic power in the legislative branch.”
Bolaños said he had come to the OAS because “we are facing political persecution that is seeking for the third time to unseat the President and certain ministers of government, who are supposedly being accused, falsely, of political crimes.” He took the opportunity to thank the OAS for supporting the Nicaraguan people and for its commitment to “defending democratic institutions whenever they have been at risk.”
He asked the OAS to monitor the entire electoral process when it begins, explaining that “an OAS presence would ensure not only that the vote recount is monitored but also—and most importantly—that the voter’s list and the voting process as a whole are reviewed.”
The Nicaraguan leader also made mention of his proposal for deputies to be elected to a Constituent National Assembly, concurrently with the 2006 national elections. He further noted that such a Constituent Assembly should elect magistrates to all branches of government, to ensure they are independent and “de-politicized.”
Chairing the special session of the Permanent Council, the Dominican Republic’s Ambassador Roberto Alvarez Gil welcomed the President of Nicaragua and reviewed OAS initiatives to closely monitor developments in the Central American country, referring as well to a preliminary report by the Permanent Council on high-level visits to Nicaragua to facilitate broad-based dialogue.
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, meanwhile, stressed that the hemisphere could do without any more instability. He gave assurances the organization “will stand with Nicaragua to help find a solution to its problems. We will stay there for as long as we need to, and you can rest assured we will follow with due seriousness any electoral process or political process, because that would serve the vital interest of all the hemisphere’s peoples.”
Several ambassadors reiterated their respective governments’ support for efforts being undertaken to bolster democracy and good governance in Nicaragua.
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