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.
INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE ASSERTS THAT DEMOCRACY IS NOT LIMITED TO THE ELECTORAL PROCESS
September 8, 2009
Democracy is not limited to the electoral process, but is also expressed in the legitimate exercise of power, including the respect for the essential elements, components and attributes of democracy. That’s how one of the Organs of the Organization of American States (OAS) put it in a Resolution based on inter-American agreements and declarations on Democracy and Human Rights.
The Inter-American Juridical Committee (CJI), based in the city of Rio de Janeiro, is one of the Organs through which the OAS accomplishes its purposes. The Committee serves the Organization as an advisory body on juridical matters of an international nature and promotes the progressive development and codification of international law in the region.
In its Resolution, which doesn’t seek to redefine but to recall and reinforce the framework of democracy, the CJI emphasizes the vital link between the effective exercise of representative democracy and the Rule of Law.
“Perpetuation in power, or the exercise of power without a fixed term and with the express intent of perpetuation, is incompatible with the exercise of democracy,” the CJI recalled among other things in its document.
Moreover, the CJI emphasized that it is necessary to strengthen independent Judicial Powers invested with autonomy and integrity, and insisted on the importance of preventing and anticipating the very causes of the problems that affect the democratic system of government.
The issuance of this Resolution coincides with the perception of a need in Latin America to reevaluate the meaning of the legitimate exercise of the democratic process.
The document put together by the Committee originated in a Resolution of the General Assembly of the OAS, held in early June 2009, in which the highest political organ of the Organization resolved to take note of “the importance for the CJI to continually address the subjects related to the Inter-American Democratic Charter.”
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