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.
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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 Committee of Anti-Corruption Experts to Hold Plenary Meeting
March 15, 2013
The Committee of Experts of the Mechanism for Follow-up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC) of the Organization of American States (OAS) will hold its 21st Meeting from March 18 to 22 at the headquarters of the hemispheric organization in Washington, DC.
The Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza, will participate in the opening session of the meeting on Monday, March 18 at 11:00 EDT (15:00 GMT). Previously, at 9:00 EDT (13:00 GMT), the Committee will hold, for the first time, a meeting with representatives of civil society organizations. Both events will be broadcast live through the website of the OAS.
During the five day meeting, representatives of Member States will evaluate the main organs of control of corruption in Argentina, Costa Rica, Honduras, Peru and Trinidad and Tobago, countries which received in October 2012, with their consent, the “on site” visit of MESICIC. At the end of the meeting, the Committee is expected to adopt the reports of these five states, which will be added to the reports from the Fourth Round adopted last September related to Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador, Mexico and Paraguay. The reports adopted by the Committee, as well as the aforementioned are available here.
WHAT: Meeting of the Committee of Experts of the OAS Anticorruption Mechanism (MESICIC)
WHEN: Monday, March 18, 2013, 9:00 EDT (13:00 GMT) and 11:00 EDT (15:00 GMT)
WHERE: Padilha Vidal Room. OAS General Secretariat Building. 1889 F Street. Washington, DC. 20006