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.
Chief of OAS Electoral Observation Mission Arrives in Costa Rica
January 28, 2014
The Chief of the Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (EOM/OAS), the former Mexican presidential candidate Josefina Vázquez Mota, arrived yesterday in San José to lead the tasks of the OAS technical team for the presidential and legislative elections on Sunday, February 2.
During her stay in Costa Rica, the Chief of Mission of the EOM/OAS will meet with electoral and governmental authorities, political leaders, media, representatives of civil society and other actors in the electoral process.
The deployment of the mission, which began on January 9, was completed this week with the arrival of the final contingent of specialists. The EOM/OAS is made up of 16 specialists from eight nationalities (Chile, Colombia, United States, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela) and will carry out its observation mission emphasizing the implementation of three methodologies to observe equity in media coverage of the electoral campaigns, in access to political-electoral financing, and in the participation of men and women throughout the electoral process.
This is the eleventh election the OAS has observed in the country since Costa Rica became in 1962 the first country in which the Organization deployed an Electoral Observation Mission. Since then, the OAS has accompanied presidential, legislative, and municipal elections as well as referendums in the country. During that time, the OAS witnessed the commitment of the Costa Rican people to democracy and their openness to observation and the improvement of electoral processes.
The day following the elections, Monday February 3, Chief of Mission Vázquez Mota will present a summary of the mission in a press conference for national and international media. Once the electoral process has concluded, the EOM/OAS will present its observations and recommendations to the Permanent Council of the Organization in Washington, DC.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.