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 Accompanied the Presentation of the Prize for Quality in Public Administration in the Dominican Republic together with President Danilo Medina
August 28, 2014
The Organization of American States (OAS) was invited by the Government of the Dominican Republic to participate in a ceremony that took place this Wednesday, headed by President Danilo Medina, in which the Prize for Quality of Public Administration was awarded.
Representing the hemispheric Organization was the Director of the Department for Effective Public Management, María Fernanda Trigo, who was invited to take part by the Minister for Public Administration, Ramón Ventura Camejo. During the event, Trigo highlighted the importance of the prize that seeks to stimulate best practices in public administration. “Incentives like this are important, because they help to incentivize the continuous improvement of institutions. To facilitate a space for learning and sharing experiences is one of the objectives of our work as an organization,” she said.
The president of the jury, Carlos Fondeur, said the prize, which was awarded in the Regional Theater of Cibao in Santiago, aims to create a culture of quality, and with it a process of continuous improvement, as well as the identification of strong points and weaknesses in each of the public institutions.
The ceremony brought together officials and employees of the fifty institutions of the government in Santiago which were nominated for the prize. The winners of the gold medals were: the Doctor Thelma Rosario Pediatric Burn Unit, the Administradora de Riesgos Laborales Salud Segura, the Politécnico Femenino Nuestra Señora de Las Mercedes, and the National Office of Industrial Property.
Receiving silver medals were the Electrical Distribution Corporation of the North, the Monument to the Heroes of the Restoration, the Juan Antonio Collado Secondary School and the Municipality of San José de las Matas. Bronze medals went to the Corporación del Acueducto y Alcantarillado de Santiago, the Department of Clinical Investigations of the José María Cabral y Báez Regional University Hospital, the Dirección de Información y Defensa de los Afiliados and School District 08-03.
Other institutions receiving bronze distinctions were the School District 08-05, the Ministry of Women, the Office of Access to Information of the Municipality of Santiago, the Unitary System of Beneficiaries and the Gynecology and Chemotherapy Unit of the the José María Cabral y Báez Regional University Hospital.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.