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 OAS Experts Issue Recommendations on Venezuela, Ecuador, Mexico, Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago
March 26, 2010
A committee of anti-corruption experts of the Organization of American States (OAS) adopted the reports on the implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC) in Venezuela, Ecuador, Mexico, Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago, referring to the responsibility of the private sector in matters of corruption, whether the States prohibit and penalize so-called “transnational bribery,” and whether the States have implemented the regulations on cooperation in matters of extradition in cases of corruption, among other subjects.
The full text of the reports by country are available here.
The Committee of Experts of the Follow-up Mechanism for the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC) met this week beginning on Monday, March 22, at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC. With respect to the responsibility of the private sector in matters of corruption, the reports adopted evaluate in detail, for example, the legal-institutional framework and formulate specific recommendations on prohibiting people or enterprises from obtaining tax benefits for payments made while violating the law against corruption, as well as mechanisms for ensuring that mercantile enterprises and other associations keep accounting registries and internal controls that allow their personnel to detect acts of corruption.
The reports also evaluate if the States prohibit and penalize so-called “transnational bribery,” which refers to people or companies of one country paying bribes to public officials in another country in exchange for such officials carrying out or omitting any act related to the transaction of an economic or commercial nature. Another subject that was evaluated was “illicit enrichment,” that is, when a public official increases his or her personal assets significantly from his or her legitimate income while serving the public and cannot reasonably justify it.
In all cases, the reports adopted by the Committee of Experts of the MESICIC examine the objective results the countries have produced in the application of the legal regulations and other existing measures with respect to each one of the subjects evaluated. Taking into account this is the third time these states have been evaluated in said framework, the reports also examine the progress achieved by the states in the implementation of the recommendations that the MESICIC has made in the two prior evaluations.
The MESICIC is a mechanism established in the framework of the OAS in which the member states reciprocally evaluate the application of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption. Based on the analyses, specific recommendations are made with respect to the areas in which there are problems or shortcomings that require further progress.