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 Begins Electoral Observation Work ahead of Presidential and Congressional Elections in the Dominican Republic
May 13, 2024
The Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) for the presidential, senatorial and provincial elections in the Dominican Republic began its work in the country ahead of the elections next Sunday, May 19.
The Mission, led by the former President of Chile Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, is made up of 84 people of 19 nationalities who will arrive in the country and follow up on issues of electoral organization, electoral technology, voting abroad, electoral violence, electoral justice , political-electoral financing, political participation of women, campaigns, media and digital communication.
To hear a broad range of impressions about the electoral process in the country, members of the Mission will meet with government representatives, electoral authorities, leaders and candidates, academics and representatives of civil society and members of the international community. After its observation, the Mission will present a preliminary report with its observations and recommendations with a view to strengthening future electoral processes in the Dominican Republic.
This is the twenty-second (22) time that the OAS has deployed an electoral mission to the Dominican Republic, and it is possible thanks to the financial contributions of Brazil, Canada, Korea, the United States, Spain, France, Italy and the Netherlands.