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 Hosts Roundtable on “Innovating for Democracy: Citizen Participation in the Digital Era”
March 25, 2015
The Organization of American States (OAS) will host, on Thursday, March 26, at 11:00 EDT (15:00 GMT), a Policy Roundtable titled “Innovating for Democracy: Citizen Participation in the Digital Era,” at the headquarters of the Organization in Washington DC.
The event will be opened by the Director of the Department for Effective Public Management of the OAS, María Fernanda Trigo, and will include a discussion panel moderated by Kevin Casas-Zamora, Secretary for Political Affairs of the OAS, who will also deliver the concluding remarks to the Roundtable. The panel will include Pablo Collada Chavéz, Executive Director of Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente; Michael Shifter, President of the Inter-American Dialogue; and Matt Lira, Spring Fellow at Harvard University´s Institute of Politics.
The Roundtable takes place in the framework of the OAS Fellowship on Open Government in the Americas, which brings together 24 young leaders from 16 countries in public administration, civil society and the private sector from across the Americas. The Program seeks to create a network of young agents of change in the region that seek new ways of building tools to bring about transparent governments and more efficient public administrations receptive to citizen demands.
The 66th OAS Policy Roundtable will be broadcast live on the OAS Website.
WHAT: 66th OAS Policy Roundtable on “Innovating for Democracy: Citizen Participation in the Digital Era”
WHEN: Thursday, March 26, at 11:00 EDT (15:00 GMT)
WHERE: Hall of the Americas
Organization of American States
17th Street & Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20006