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 Deploys Electoral Cooperation Technical Team to Guatemala
January 31, 2023
Responding to a request from the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Guatemala, the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS), through the Department for Electoral Cooperation and Observation (DECO) of the Secretariat for Strengthening Democracy, sent a technical team to the country this week to visit the electoral body, to explore areas of technical cooperation on electoral issues ahead of the general elections on June 25.
The technical team of four people, led by the Chief of Electoral Cooperation of the DECO/OAS, Cristóbal Fernandez, and made up of specialists in electoral organization and technology, will meet with the members and technical areas of the TSE.
During the visit to Guatemala, the OAS technical team will analyze the possibilities and scope of technical cooperation, which would allow the collaboration between the OAS General Secretariat and the TSE to move ahead.
In the next general elections, more than 9 million people are eligible to elect the next President and Vice President of the Republic, 160 members of Congress, 340 municipal corporations and 20 deputies to the Central American Parliament.