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.
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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.
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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 statement was contained in a preliminary report Permanent Council Chairman Ambassador Aristides Royo of Panama delivered to the Council, after he and Acting OAS Secretary General Luigi Einaudi led a high-level mission to Nicaragua this past Monday to meet with President Enrique Bolaños and opposition leaders, among other sectors of society. The emergency visit followed a request by Central American presidents, after Nicaragua’s Superior Council of Comptrollers announced they would suspend the president’s salary and seek to impeach him.
Not mounted to support the president or his government, the visit was instead intended to support “democratic institutions,” the report stressed. Ambassador Royo read the report which also explained that the visit to Nicaragua, while underscoring OAS concern over the preservation of democratic processes in the hemisphere, was also “an eloquent expression of the solidarity and fraternal spirit that strengthen the hemispheric community.”
For his part, Ambassador Einaudi said that despite the climate of uncertainty, he felt the visit “did calm the waters substantially.” He reiterated the need for national dialogue to ease tensions and improve “governability.”
Einaudi also announced the OAS had received contributions from the governments of Brazil, Sweden and the United States, towards an electoral observer mission that will monitor Nicaragua’s upcoming municipal elections, scheduled for November 6.
Meanwhile, Nicaragua’s Ambassador to the OAS Carmen Marina Gutiérrez expressed appreciation for the timely and “immediate response to the request by Central American presidents.” She argued that preventive diplomacy must be allowed work, and “we must safeguard that precious commodity called democracy.” Noting that while the visit was successful, she added: “Our country is still in danger.”
Thanking the OAS for the preliminary report on the visit, the Ambassador also thanked the governments that have contributed to the mounting of an OAS team of monitors for her country’s municipal elections.
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