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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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 and the Association of Electoral Tribunals of Mexico to Strengthen Research and Professional Development in the Legal-Electoral Area
February 23, 2018
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The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Association of Electoral Tribunals of the Mexican Republic (ATERM) today signed an agreement to cooperate in the following areas:
• Development and implementation of joint research projects;
• Exchange of personnel for the strengthening of study programs and research;
• Creation of proposals for preliminary drafts of inter-American legislative texts, model laws, and legislative guidelines; and
• Holding joint meetings to discuss matters of common interest.
During the event, the OAS Secretary General, Luis Almagro, recalled the extensive experience of the OAS in observing electoral processes that have allowed it to "accumulate an ample knowledge and experience that we must continue to share." In addition, he said "only with the cooperation of all and institutions like those represented here today will we be able to continue working to fulfill our objective set forth in Article 1 of the Democratic Charter: the peoples of the Americas have a right to democracy and their governments have an obligation to promote and defend it.”
For his part, the Presiding Magistrate of ATERM, César Lorenzo Wong Meraz, said the signing of the agreement will be "a watershed for our association, through which we will be doing research and training activities." Wong Meraz also reiterated the ATERM's goal of "being part of this new Mexico, a Mexico of institutions, of respect for human rights and electoral-political rights.”