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.
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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.
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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 Hosts Launch of Book, “Democratic Governance in Latin America”
November 4, 2010
Photo: OAS
The Organization of American States (OAS) and its Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza, today hosted the launch of a new volume on democracy in Latin America. Titled, “Democratic Governance in Latin America,” the book examines the lessons about successful democratic governance in Latin America in recent decades.
Secretary General Insulza, one of the book’s contributors, presented the publication along with Michael Shifter, the President of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington think tank. The book, co-edited by Scott P. Mainwaring and Rev. Timothy R. Scully, CSC, of the University of Notre Dame, collects the work of distinguished political leaders, political scientists and economists of the region.
During a presentation at OAS headquarters, Secretary General Insulza highlighted that Latin America will end the first decade of the 21st century in much better shape than when the decade began. Despite the economic crisis, the region will have grown more during this period than in the previous two decades combined, he emphasized. That is why it is important to ask, as the book does, he said: "Did policy have something to do with all these improvements? And, how much did we learn? It seems that we have learned in several areas."
Rev. Scully described the origin of the idea for the book. "As a region Latin America has never been more democratic than it is today, and it has made tremendous gains in terms of democratic governability in the past few decades. And yet only a few countries in the region have with a minimum degree of consistency met the challenges of governing both democratically and effectively."
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