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 CONFIRMS EL SALVADOR’S MARCH 21 ELECTIONS WERE FAIR
March 31, 2004
According a preliminary report by the Organization of American States, the presidential elections held in El Salvador on March 21 were fair and transparent. Antonio Saca was elected President and Ana Vilma de Escobar Vice President, in the first round.
Elizabeth Spehar, Executive Coordinator of the Organization’s Unit for the Promotion of Democracy (UPD), told the Permanent Council on March 31 that the OAS Electoral Observation Mission had concluded that the elections “provided Salvadorians an opportunity for a massive turn-out to vote and to freely express their political will.” That voter turn-out also “definitely advanced the country’s democracy,” she asserted, congratulating the Salvadorian people, the government, electoral authorities and political actors for what she described as “a transparent election process.”
Spehar cited two important suggestions to strengthen El Salvador’s electoral institutions as a whole. Firstly, she said the authorities should consider implementing a system to take the election to voters, thereby simplifying the logistics and enhancing voter turn-out. The second suggestion relates to the Supreme Elections Tribunalhaving its own infrastructure for training, using a permanent team of trainers versed in formulating and implementing projects to strengthen the electoral systems.
The UPD Coordinator also thanked the government officials as well as electoral authorities, presidential candidates and their campaign teams, local and international media representatives and the international community, notably Brazil and the United States as donor countries, for helping the Mission accomplish its objectives.
Meanwhile, in her remarks, El Salvador’s Ambassador, Margarita Escobar, thanked the OAS for the report and for supporting her country’s electoral process. She praised the Electoral Observation Mission for its professionalism and impartiality, saying the team’s efforts undoubtedly helped to strengthen democracy in El Salvador. She again thanked the United States and Brazil for supporting the OAS team of election observers.
Speaking on behalf of all the delegations, the Permanent Council’s Chairman, Ambassador Paul Durand of Canada, congratulated the people and government of El Salvador, “for conducting the March 21 elections as an exemplary exercise in democracy.”
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