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 Deputy Foreign Minister of Peru, Gonzalo Gutiérrez Reinal, and Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary GeneralJosé Miguel Insulza today signed an agreement pertaining to the observation of municipal and regional elections in that country on November 19 this year.
Under the agreement on privileges and immunities for members of the OAS Electoral Observation Mission, the Andean nation’s electoral and political authorities will provide all the necessary cooperation, the Deputy Foreign Minister explained.
“The OAS has had a long history of excellent work observing our electoral processes in Peru,” said Gutierrez Reinal, adding that the upcoming election will be the first of its kind since the creation of the regions in Peru. “The engagement of the OAS will also be crucial.”
In November, Peruvians go to the polls to elect Regional Presidents as well as town mayors. It will be the OAS’ first time monitoring a regional election in Peru, and the second monitoring a municipal vote there.
Meanwhile, in welcoming the Peruvian Vice President to the OAS, Secretary General Insulza recalled that the organization provided international observers for the two rounds of Peru’s recent presidential elections. Insulza said those elections took place “in an atmosphere of calm, characterized by a civic mindedness that is an example to the Americas and the world at large.”
Insulza said he was honored that at the recent swearing-in in Lima, President Alan García had personally extended the invitation to monitor the upcoming elections. He said, “When a country that has been so successful at managing its electoral system invites us to observe, the Organization views it as both a responsibility and an honor.”
The Secretary General is expected to appoint a Chief of Mission soon and over the next few weeks the Organization will sign the agreement with the relevant electoral authorities for deployment of a Mission as soon as possible.
“We are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Mission so we can begin collaborating to ensure the democratic exercise that will take place in a few weeks will be transparent,” Minister Gonzalo Gutierrez Reinal stated.
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