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.
Access to information has the unquestionable effect of strengthening
accountability of, and trust in, government institutions. It fosters
greater efficiency and integrity in the management of public resources
and is essential for making the State more transparent in its
operations, more effective in its actions, more responsible in
respecting and promoting individual rights, and more responsive to
public needs and demands.
Access to information is a vital tool in the fight against corruption–one of the most powerful threats to every country’s economic and social
development–by effectively implementing public oversight of all
government acts, making corruption more difficult, thus promoting
greater accountability, and making it possible to reveal abuses, errors,
and weaknesses in the public sector.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has stated that “the State’s
actions should be governed by the principles of disclosure and
transparency in public administration that enable all persons subject to
its jurisdiction to exercise the democratic control of those actions,
and so that they can question, investigate and consider whether public
functions are being performed adequately.”