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.
Statement from the OAS Electoral Observation Mission to the General Elections in the United States
December 15, 2020
The Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) for the November 3, 2020 general elections in the United States has followed the post-electoral process since the conclusion of the poll, through the certification of results in the states, recounts in Georgia and Wisconsin, and the resolution of the various legal challenges brought before the courts.
In the latter regard, the Mission’s Preliminary Statement, issued on November 6, 2020, addressed the right of all contesting parties in the elections to seek legal redress if they believed they had been wronged. The Mission was pleased to observe that all election stakeholders had ample opportunities to express their discontent judicially and that their petitions were resolved in a timely manner. This demonstrates the strength of the U.S. electoral justice system.
The Mission takes note that the 538 members of the Electoral College met in the different states on December 14, 2020, as scheduled, to cast their votes for the President and Vice President of the United States. Those results, which reflected the preliminary tallies presented by those states, gave 306 votes to President-elect Joseph Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, with 232 votes for incumbent President Donald Trump and Vice President Michael Pence.
The Mission congratulates President-elect Joseph Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their success at the polls.
The OAS Mission will remain engaged with the current process through the meeting of the Congress on January 6, 2021, when the certificates of the vote and of ascertainment prepared by the Electoral College are tallied and the election results finally declared and up to the inauguration of the next President and Vice President of the United States on January 20, 2021.