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.
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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.
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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 MEETING TO LOOK AT NEW CHALLENGES
IN ELECTIONS TECHNOLOGY IN AMERICAS
March 10, 2003
An Organization of American States (OAS) meeting in Panama City this week will bring together senior elections officials from 20 member states to examine the challenges facing the Americas in the area of electoral technology.
The Inter-American Meeting of Electoral Authorities, scheduled for March 12 to 14, will also review the experience with electronic voting in Brazil as well as horizontal cooperation through the OAS to bring the technology on stream in Paraguay.
The agenda includes as well the experience with electronic voting and horizontal cooperation in Europe, the question of technological adaptation, and awareness by citizens and political organizations, with an emphasis on transparency, security and confidence in electoral systems.
Specific topics to be addressed include the implementation of electronic voting, technological advances by country and their impact on election organization, the social face of technology, and the advances, successes and goals of computerization procedures being applied to election organizing.
The OAS is sponsoring the upcoming Inter-American Meeting of Electoral Officials through the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy’s Area of Strengthening Electoral Processes and Systems. UPD Executive Coordinator Elizabeth Spehar will inaugurate the meeting, along with the President of Panama’s Electoral Tribunal, Eduardo Valdés Escoffery.
A delegation from Puerto Rico and a number of recognized electoral experts are also expected to share information on the current challenges and progress involved in organizing elections.
Other invitees include the Carter Center, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), International Republican Institute, Center for Electoral Assistance and Promotion, National Democratic Institute (NDI), the UN and the European Union.
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