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 TO HOLD MEETING IN CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA, ON POLITICAL PARTIES
November 20, 2003
More than 100 political leaders from around the hemisphere will participate in the third annual meeting of the Inter-American Forum on Political Parties, which will begin this Sunday, November 23, in Cartagena, Colombia.
Colombian President Álvaro Uribe and OAS Secretary General César Gaviria will open the meeting, along with Canada’s Ambassador to the OAS, Paul Durand. Participants include two former Peruvian Presidents, Alan García and Valentín Paniagua, as well as more than 30 political party chairs of different political leanings. Electoral authorities, academics and representatives of international and non-government organizations are also scheduled to participate.
The high cost of political campaigns and the need to improve financial transparency are among the central issues that will be discussed, along with the growing disillusionment that citizens feel toward political parties and politicians. Panels will also look at case studies of political reforms that have been undertaken in Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru and Central America.
“There is an awareness across the region that political party reform is a priority for strengthening democracy, as stated in the Inter-American Democratic Charter,” said Elizabeth Spehar, Executive Coordinator of the OAS Unit for the Promotion of Democracy. “This high-level event will enrich the dialogue on these issues, and help us build and promote an inter-American agenda for reforming and modernizing parties and party systems,” she added.
The Inter-American Forum on Political Parties was created to fulfill mandates related to political reform established by the heads of state and government at the last Summit of the Americas, held in 2001, and in the Inter-American Democratic Charter, adopted that same year. The Inter-American Forum’s first two annual meetings, held in Miami in 2001 and Vancouver last year, also brought together high-level participants from across the region.
For more information about this event, please contact Janelle Conaway by e-mail ([email protected]) or by cellular phone (as of Saturday, Nov. 22) in Cartagena: (57) 315-355-9391.
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