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.
The Organization of American States will deploy monitors to observe Suriname’s 2005 election process that begins on May 25 with the election of the 51-members of the National Assembly and District and Local (Ressort) Councils. The first of two agreements that are required before the OAS can observe elections in any member state was signed Friday at OAS headquarters in Washington. It set out provided privileges and immunities to be accorded the OAS team observing the May elections and subsequent steps in this year’s electoral process.
The OAS team plans to begin its work in Suriname after a second agreement is signed by the Organization and the Independent Electoral Council (OKB), one of the country’s electoral administration bodies. That agreement guarantees access by the observers to all parts of the electoral process. Later this year, the National Assembly will meet to select the country’s president and vice president. The OAS will observe that part of the process as well.
Ambassador Corinne McKnight, a Trinidad and Tobago diplomat, has been designated as Chief of Mission for the OAS Electoral Observation team that will monitor the election processes and report its findings.
Signing for his government, Suriname’s Ambassador to the OAS, Henry L. Illes, welcomed the agreements as once again putting focus on the relationship between the OAS and Suriname. He commended the Organization for its longstanding, positive role in monitoring electoral processes in member states. The OAS has observed elections in Suriname on five occasions.
“Electoral observation is one of the fundamental roles of the Organization of American States (OAS),” declared Brian Stevenson, Executive Secretary for Integral Development who signed on behalf of Acting Secretary General Luigi R. Einaudi. Stevenson reiterated the Ambassador’s observations, remarking that the OAS is proud of its record in observing elections “particularly because it reinforces the ties and the partnership between the Organization and its member states.”