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 Anti-Corruption Mechanism Begins Process of Analysis in Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Panama, Uruguay and Venezuela
January 2, 2013
The Organization of American States (OAS) has begun the process of analyzing a new group of countries - Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Panama, Uruguay, and Venezuela - as part of the Fourth Round of the Mechanism for Follow-Up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC) of the OAS, which aims to analyze the legal and institutional frameworks of each country, their adaptation to the Inter-American Convention against Corruption and the objective results achieved.
The analysis of this process began with the sending of the responses to the questionnaire by these countries on December 12, 2012, and will include “on site” visits in April 2013.
The next six “on site” visits will be added to the previous ten that were performed in 2012 in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Trinidad and Tobago, in which interviews were carried out with more than one hundred government officials from more than 60 public institutions responsible for preventing, detecting, punishing and eradicating corruption.
In addition, the Technical Secretariat of the Mechanism, under the Department of Legal Cooperation of the Secretariat for Legal Affairs of the OAS, has also concluded the preparation of the preliminary reports of the second group of states, composed of Argentina, Costa Rica, Honduras, Peru and Trinidad and Tobago, which will be considered by the Committee of Experts of MESICIC at its next meeting in March 2013.
The Mechanism for Follow-Up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC) is a tool created to foster the development of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption, through "peer" cooperation between Member States to the Mechanism. The incorporation of on-site visits as a stage and an integral part of the process of analysis is an innovative development in the field of the OAS that has further strengthened this mechanism of reciprocal analysis between states.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.