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 Honduras Sign Agreement for Technical Cooperation on Electoral Matters
July 23, 2012
The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Honduras today signed an agreement for the Provision of Technical Cooperation in Electoral Matters, by which the regional organization will provide assistance and training to the Central American country with the aim of strengthening its electoral system.
"The celebration of this important agreement falls under the mandate of the OAS to support Member States in their efforts to strengthen democratic institutions such as the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Honduras," said Secretary General José Miguel Insulza during the signing ceremony, held at the headquarters of the organization in Washington, DC.
Secretary General Insulza said the agreement enables the OAS to advise the TSE on the primary elections of November 18, ahead of the upcoming general elections. “The TSE has identified among its priorities for the OAS technical cooperation areas such as audits of the national census and the electoral processes of computation and transmission of preliminary results, and other projects that may be brought into use in the framework of this agreement," said the Secretary General.
"We look forward to contributing in other areas with the signing of this framework cooperation agreement, which will enable further institutional strengthening of the TSE and the electoral system of the Republic of Honduras," the head of the OAS.
The President of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Honduras, José Saúl Escobar, who signed the document, thanked the OAS for its "cooperation with Honduran democracy" and its support in the primary elections at the end of the year, in which four political parties will participate.
The Assistant Secretary General of the OAS, Albert Ramdin, the Chair of the Permanent Council and Ambassador of Jamaica, Stephen Vasciannie, the Secretary of Political Affairs of the OAS, Kevin Casas-Zamora, and the Judges of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Honduras, David Matamoros and Henry Cortez were also present at the ceremony.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.
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