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.
U.S. AMBASSADOR JOHN F. MAISTO ON OAS OBSERVATION OF VENEZUELA SIGNATURE DRIVES
REGULAR SESSION OF THE PERMANENT COUNCIL
December 17, 2003 - Washington, DC
• Mr. Chairman, my delegation wishes to praise the fine work performed by the men and women of the OAS observer mission to the recent signature drives in Venezuela.
• Their discretion, professionalism, and commitment to the democratic process materially contributed to the civil atmosphere that prevailed as the Venezuelan people exercised their constitutional rights. The OAS observers’ role will remain key as the National Electoral Council begins the process of verifying the signatures collected.
• We should all take great satisfaction from the principled leadership of Secretary General Gaviria. His neutral stance in evaluating the process he had witnessed was exemplary.
• We commend the Venezuelan people and the National Electoral Council for conducting a generally peaceful signature collection process.
• We applaud the continued efforts to resolve Venezuela’s political crisis peacefully using the instruments of democracy.
• We believe that allowing all Venezuelans to exercise the franchise in this manner is a positive step toward advancing the May 29, 2002 agreement between the Venezuelan Government and the opposition. This will help in achieving a “constitutional, democratic, peaceful and electoral solution” to the political impasse, as called for in Permanent Council Resolution 833.
• We urge all parties to support an independent National Electoral Council in conducting the follow-on signature verification process in a fair and transparent manner.
• A final note - OAS is carrying out precisely what our Democratic Charter calls for: facilitating “the effective exercise of representative democracy,” through which “all citizens participate in decisions relating to their own development.”
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