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.
OAS and Documentation Sciences Foundation of Spain Sign Agreement to Provide Greater Transparency to Parliaments of the Americas
June 17, 2013
The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Documentation Sciences Foundation (FCD) of Spain signed a memorandum of understanding that seeks to promote the strengthening of the management of legislatures in the region, through actions that promote transparency, access to public information and citizen participation.
The Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza, and the President of the FCD, José Raúl Vaquero Pulido, signed the agreement, which states that both institutions should establish a general cooperation framework to promote the development and strengthening of the legislative bodies of the region.
The central objective of the agreement is to promote the program of Open Parliaments in OAS Member States, including the opening of information on public records, increased citizen participation and accountability at national, regional and municipal levels.
The document sets out the terms and conditions to promote and accompany common efforts and initiatives aimed at institutional strengthening, the performing of diagnostics, maintenance, organization of files and documentation as well as the analysis and production of reports for the training of legislators, political leaders and public officials on issues related to the access and management of the information of legislative institutions at different levels.
Implementation of the agreement will begin shortly and will be carried out by a committee which will be composed of representatives of the FCD and Unit in Support of Representative Institutions of the Secretariat for Political Affairs of the OAS.
Among other tasks, the Committee will coordinate activities such as development of diagnostic tests of the capacities in the legislative Institutions of the region in the conservation, digitization, management and organization of files, promoting citizen participation; and the creation of documentary and bibliographic funds in those parliaments wishing to effectively manage their information. In this way, it will seek to generate knowledge that will make them more competitive and useful to society; as well as organizing training courses in document management applied to Open Parliament, in order to promote transparency, adjust document management processes to Electronic Parliament strategies enhance tasks and issues such as standardization and documentary interoperability.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org
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