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 Anti-Corruption Experts Approve Reports on Visits to Brazil, El Salvador, Mexico, Bolivia and Paraguay
September 14, 2012
The Twentieth Meeting of the Committee of Experts of the Mechanism for Follow-up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC) of the Organization of American States (OAS), concluded today with the approval of the reports on the five countries visited this year, Brazil, El Salvador, Mexico, Bolivia and Paraguay, and with the approval of a visit to Ecuador in 2013.
The Department of Legal Cooperation of the OAS presented to the Committee of Experts the reports of its visits to Brazil, El Salvador, Mexico, Bolivia and Paraguay, conducted during March and April 2012. During the visits, the officials of the Department of Legal Cooperation held meetings with over 30 public institutions and more than 90 senior government officials.
Additionally, the Committee of Experts approved an on-site visit to Ecuador, to be carried out during the next year, and also approved items of collective interest such as the continuation of the synergies between MESICIC and the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The OGP is a multilateral initiative promoted in September 2011 by the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, South Africa, the Philippines and Norway –which 47 other countries have since joined - which seeks to encourage concrete commitments from governments, involving civil society to improve transparency and access to information.
The Twentieth Meeting of the Committee of Experts of MESICIC took place between September 10 and 14 in the building of the General Secretariat of the OAS in Washington, DC. The Twenty-First Meeting of the Committee of Experts of MESICIC will be held in March 2013 in the same place. More than 50 delegates from 31 States parties to the MESICIC took part in the meeting.
In 1996, the OAS Member States adopted the first international anticorruption legal instrument, and in 2002, they instituted the mechanism which evaluates its fulfillment. Since that time, the Inter-American Convention against Corruption and the Follow-Up Mechanism for its Implementation (MESICIC), have represented the principal cooperation instruments for preventing, detecting, punishing and eradicating corruption in the Americas.
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