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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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.
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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 Electoral Observation Mission Makes Preliminary Visit to Panama
March 27, 2014
The Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS/EOM) begins today the second visit to Panama in order to gather information on the progress of the organization of the general elections of May 4, 2014.
Within the context of the EOM, the Chief of Mission, Lourdes Flores Nano, appointed by the Secretary General of the OAS for this task, will hold meetings with various electoral authorities, government officials, member of political parties, and presidential candidates, as well as representatives of the international community in the country.
The Mission will be composed of 50 experts and observers that will be deployed throughout the country from the first days of April. The Mission will observe different aspects of the process, including organization and election technology, political financing, and participation of men and women in the electoral process, among others.
Since 1972, the OAS has accompanied and/or observed a total of nine elections in the Central American country. As on previous occasions, the Mission will present a report to the Permanent Council of the Organization in which it will outline observations and recommendations in order to help improve the Panamanian electoral system.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.