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 Announces winners of the Inter-American Award on Innovation in Effective Public Management – 2016
October 14, 2016
The Organization of American States (OAS) announces winners of the “Inter-American Award on Innovation in Effective Public Management - 2016”, which aims at identifying and promoting innovative actions in the public management of national, departmental and local governments of the Hemisphere.
The initiative seeks to recognize, identify and systematize tools and innovative experiences in public management, to disseminate, replicate and adapt them in the region in order to continue improving public institutions at all administrative levels.
In total, 159 applications were received from 15 OAS Member States.
The results are as follows:
Category: Quality in Public Services
Winner: Municipalidad Distrital de Miraflores del Perú Innovative Experience: Basura que no es basura
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Unidad de Acceso a la Información Pública (UAIP) / Agencia para el Desarrollo del Gobierno de Gestión Electrónica y la Sociedad de la Información y del Conocimiento (AGESIC) del Uruguay Innovative Experience: “Queremos Saber”
Category: Planning and Evaluation of Public Policies
Winner: Gobierno de Jalisco. Secretaría de Planeación, Administración y Finanzas. Dirección General de Monitoreo y Evaluación de México Innovative Experience: Estrategia Evalúa Jalisco
- Diana Villiers Negroponte, member of the advisory board of the Wilson Center.
- Kevin Casas-Zamora, Director of the Inter-American Dialogue's Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program.
- Zakiya Carr Johnson, Director of the Race, Ethnicity, and Social Inclusion Unit, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. State. Department.
- Luz Patricia Mejia Guerrero, Technical Secretary of the Follow-up OAS Mechanism of the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women “Convention of Belém do Pará” (MESECVI).