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.
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE OAS AND THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF NUEVO LEON WILL FORTIFY HORIZONTAL COOPERATION IN ELECTORAL MATTERS
July 25, 2008
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, signed an electoral cooperation agreement with the State Electoral Commission of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, highlighting its importance in helping the continental organization attend to requests from its Member States in electoral matters.
“The goal of this agreement is to establish cooperative ties in order to promote horizontal cooperation toward other Member States,” Insulza said, after signing the documents together with Eduardo Guerra Sepulveda, Commissioner and President of the State Electoral Commission of Nuevo Leon, in a ceremony celebrated on Thursday at the seat of the OAS in Washington, DC.
The Secretary General stated that the cooperation of the Commission acquires even more importance when one considers the number of electoral processes observed by the OAS. Electoral processes have seen a great progress, Insulza said while referring to electoral observation as the only activity of the OAS enshrined in the Inter-American Democratic Charter.
For the Secretary General, the agreement between the OAS and the Electoral Commission of Nuevo Leon is also important in promoting the citizens’ trust in their institutions. “Because of this, we are interested in the topic of quality control—in helping countries conduct their elections in a much better way,” he explained, citing surveys that indicate that a large number of citizens in the Americas do not trust elections.
For his part, Commissioner Sepulveda underscored that “we feel honored to be able to contribute to the improvement of electoral processes,” in view of the great challenge that countries face in their effort to better the quality of electoral processes and make them more transparent. Part of the importance of this contribution is to allow citizens to cast their vote “with the assurance that their choice will be respected and that the process is completely free and transparent,” concluded Sepulveda.