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.
“Democracy is impossible without transparency and citizen participation,” the Organization of American States’ (OAS) Acting Secretary General, Luigi Einaudi, reiterated Tuesday evening as he opened the Fourth Meeting of the Inter-American Forum on Political Parties, in Brasilia, Brazil. The OAS official also underscored the importance of such issues as public financing of political parties, transparency requirements, enforcement mechanisms and access to the media.
“The ebbing public confidence many parties have encountered in recent years is very troubling,” Einaudi told some 140 political party leaders attending the three-day forum. He observed that “in several countries, parties have not kept up with changes in communication or have seemed unresponsive to popular needs.” He also stressed the need for political parties to give more priority to increasing the participation of women, youth and ethnic minorities, adding that these population segments “can increase electoral success of parties.”
Meanwhile, the Vice President of the Brazilian Senate, Eduardo Siqueira Campos, described the meeting of political party leaders from around the Americas as a demonstration of solidarity and unity to promote the building of societies that are more just, democratic and free.
João Paulo Cunha, President of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, reiterated the OAS Acting Secretary General’s remarks about the need for stricter oversight of election campaign financing and political party financing. Cunha also cited the efficiency of Brazil’s electoral system and the importance of policy reform to strengthen political parties in Brazil and the rest of the hemisphere.
Discussions at the Brasilia Forum on Political Parties revolve around four main issues: political parties in the crossroads of economic and social development; the challenge of representation and inclusion; the ethics and practice of campaign and political party finance; and country case studies of recently enacted reform in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Central America, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and the United States.
The main objective of the Forum is to facilitate the development of a hemispheric agenda for reform and modernization of political parties and party systems.
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