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.
Secretary General Insulza Welcomes "OAS Electoral Observation Day"
February 4, 2013
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today welcomed the celebration of OAS Electoral Observation Day, calling it "a date of great significance not only for this organization but for the entire hemisphere.”
"The policy of the OAS, which has deepened in recent years, of accompanying electoral processes throughout the hemisphere, responds to one of the fundamental pillars of the OAS: to protect, promote and consolidate democracy. There have been more than 200 missions in the 50 years since the first, and the professionalism, preparation and commitment of each and every one of the people who took part in these processes has ensured that today, electoral observation is one of the most recognized and admired activities of the OAS around the world," added the head of the hemispheric organization.
In order to support the important work of the organization observing electoral processes in the region, the Permanent Council established February 4 of every year as the "OAS Electoral Observation Day." It was that day in 1962 when a mission of the then-Pan American Union, witnessed elections in a country for the first time, in this case Costa Rica. From that mission to the present, the OAS has observed 200 elections in 27 of its 34 Member States.
The Electoral Observation Missions of the OAS are one of the organization’s most important tools to meet its core mandates. Their presence is also a symbol of the solidarity and support of the Inter-American community for the efforts of Member States to improve the organization and administration of their electoral processes.
With the consolidation of democracy in the countries of the region, the missions of the OAS have been increasingly professionalized, and today have a variety of technical tools to observe elections. In the last five years, the General Secretariat expanded the number of countries open to observation, increased the types of elections observed, and worked to position itself as an international reference point in electoral observation.
Going forward, the OAS will continue to work to strengthen the institutions and electoral processes in the region.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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