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.
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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.
Permanent Council Receives Report on Elections in the Dominican Republic that Highlights Normality of Electoral Process
September 6, 2012
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today received the verbal report of the Electoral Observation Mission (EOM) on the elections in the Dominican Republic on May 20, which stated that the elections took place normally.
The Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza, congratulated “the people and government of the Dominican Republic for the electoral process carried forward”, and also the former Uruguayan President Tabaré Vazquez, for the seriousness he displayed throughout the electoral mission.
The Secretary of the Department of Political Affairs of the OAS, Kevin Casas-Zamora, read the report written by ex President Vazquez, which stressed the “normality” in which the election took place, while at the same time noting “isolated reports” about vote buying by various political parties.
Meanwhile, Casas-Zamora, who was present on the day of the election, stressed “the enormous professionalism and the sheer quality of the organization of the election”, in which the candidate of the Dominican Liberation Party, Danilo Medina, was elected President, with 51.21 percent of the votes cast. “The electoral organization in the Dominican Republic has little or nothing to envy of any country in the world”, added Casas-Zamora.
The MOE was composed of 71 technicians and observers from 15 OAS Member States and 6 Permanent Observers, who were deployed throughout the country’s territory.
On another point of the agenda, the Permanent Council appointed the Ambassador of Colombia, Andres Gonzalez Diaz, as Chair of the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs.
The Permanent Council also agreed to convene a meeting on Monday, September 10 to discuss the methodology that will used in the “process of strengthening the Inter-American System of Human Rights,” according to a specific mandate of the General Assembly held in Bolivia in past June.
In another agenda point, the creation of a joint Work Group of the Permanent Council and the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development was approved to take up the project of a Plan of Action for the Social Charter of the Americas, and designated the Ambassador of Peru, Walter Jorge Albán, as Chair of the group.
During their addresses, the ambassadors welcomed the new Permanent Representative of Saint Lucia to the OAS, Sonia Johnny.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.