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.
ANTI-CORRUPTION EXPERTS FROM THE REGION MEET AT OAS
March 7, 2005
Corruption weakens democratic systems and erodes trust in institutions, government anti-corruption experts were reminded today at the opening of a meeting at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS).
“Without trust in institutions, democracy cannot flourish,” said William Berenson, Director of the OAS Department of Legal Affairs and Service, who welcomed the high-level experts on behalf of the General Secretariat. He added that besides its effect on democracy, the scourge of corruption also “diverts resources from development in our countries.”
The Committee of Experts of the Mechanism for Follow-Up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption will meet until March 12 to consider draft reports on six countries: the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, and Trinidad and Tobago. To date, the experts have adopted follow-up reports on the fight against corruption in 12 other member states.
The Committee of Experts is chaired by Guadalupe Cajías, Bolivia’s Presidential Representative against Corruption, who stressed that in recent months there has been “a greater and more dynamic coordination” in implementing the Inter-American Convention against Corruption. Governments in the region are making major efforts to fulfill their commitments under the treaty and have undertaken initiatives to enhance cooperation and mutual assistance and to increase the dialogue with civil society, she said.
In her report to the delegates, Guadalupe Cajías said recent international anti-corruption meetings in Bolivia, Brazil and Venezuela had reinforced regional alliances on this issue. She invited participants to attend a global anti-corruption forum that will be held in the Brazilian capital of Brasilia from June 7 to 10 of this year.
Twenty-eight OAS member states participate in the Mechanism for Follow-Up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption, which was created to strengthen countries’ compliance with the treaty. The reports adopted analyze the progress in each country against corruption and recommend concrete measures for improvement.
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