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 MISSION TO OBSERVE GENERAL ELECTIONS IN COSTA RICA
November 25, 2009
The Secretary General of the Organization of the American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, and the Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the Organization, José Enrique Castillo Barrantes, signed Wednesday an agreement to establish the terms of the OAS Electoral Observation Mission to the general elections on February 7.
The signing ceremony took place at OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C., and was also attended by the Director of the Department for Electoral Cooperation and Observation (DECO), Pablo Gutierrez. The Secretary General was grateful for “the confidence” shown to the OAS by the signing of the agreement, and highlighted that to fulfill the mission “specialists in areas such as electoral organization, electoral legislation, press, coordination of observers, political analysis and logistics will cover the whole country.”
The Secretary General recalled that the OAS already observed many electoral processes in the Central American country, and mentioned particularly the efficiency that marked the processing of results in the referendum for the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) that took place in October 2007. “We will do our best and we do not expect to have any problems, because we never have.”
Costa Rica will elect 1,050 public offices in the upcoming General Election on February 7, 2009, among them President, Vice President and 57 members of the Provincial Legislative Assembly.
The Agreement on Procedures for the Electoral Observation will be signed December 2 in San Jose City between the OAS General Secretariat, represented by the Head of Mission María Emma Mejia (former Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia), and the President of the Supreme Electoral Court of Costa Rica, Luis Antonio Sobrado.