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 to Monitor Presidential Elections in Guatemala
June 7, 2011
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala, Haroldo Rodas Melgar, today signed an agreement whereby the hemispheric organization will send an observation mission to monitor the general elections set for September 11, 2011, in that Central American country.
Guatemalans will go to the polls to elect a president and vice president, congressional representatives, and municipal councils nationwide, in addition to principal and alternate deputies to the Central American Parliament for the next four years.
The Secretary General underscored the significance of the elections and noted that their observation was “a highly important undertaking for which we plan to deploy observers all over the country.” “We believe that a responsibility of this type comes with the obligation to discharge it thoroughly,” he added.
The OAS’s senior official announced the appointment of José Octavio Bordón, a former Argentine senator, as chief of mission. He also explained that the observer group would include experts in the areas of electoral organization and law, the press, observer coordination, political analysis, and logistics, among others. “We have complete faith in the abilities of Mr. Bordón and the entire mission team,” he said.
The Guatemalan foreign minister thanked the OAS General Secretariat for the support that it has provided “to the Guatemalan people and government so that the elections might proceed -as ever- in a calm and transparent manner.” He added that the Organization demonstrates all “its expertise at every election in Latin America.”
The signing ceremony took place in the context of the forty-first regular session of the OAS General Assembly, which concludes today in El Salvador.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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