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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.
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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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Here you will find information related to the OAS Strategic Plan 2016-2020, including its design, preparation and approval.
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today signed a cooperation agreement with the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Ecuador to strengthen technical electoral assistance for the general elections in that country later this year.
The agreement, signed by the Secretary General and the electoral institution’s President, Xavier Cazar Valencia, seeks to strengthen the tribunal’s information systems during the different stages of the electoral process.
The OAS assistance will include providing technical support to update the electoral rolls through the implementation of a photographic and biometric registry; renovating the official vote tabulation system and penalty payment structure; and providing support in the development of software for voting abroad, through a system of pre-registry and publication of materials for on-line voting.
“Unfortunately many of our nations have suffered a significant migration of their citizens, who maintain ties to their native country and want to be able to vote in elections,” Insulza said. He stressed that the Internet-based voting system “is a very substantive program and we are very glad to be able to collaborate with it.”
Cazar Valencia said that institutions in Ecuador have to some extent been fractured by political crisis, and explained the importance of moving ahead with “a process of strengthening the image and the institutionalism of the electoral operation.”
Cooperating with the OAS in these endeavors, Cazar Valencia noted, will “demonstrate to citizens, to the nation and to institutions, that with resolution we can move ahead, joining efforts among all of us who want democracy in the country in order to bring about the success and change that Ecuadorians demand.”
The head of the electoral body took the opportunity to invite the OAS to monitor the October presidential elections, adding that the formal invitation would be transmitted in the coming days. For his part, Secretary General Insulza said that “without a doubt” the Organization will send an Electoral Observation Mission, which would also monitor a second round “if that were to become necessary.”
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