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 Launches Virtual Course on "Government in the Era of Social Media"
August 22, 2013
The Organization of American States (OAS), through its Department for Effective Public Management will hold a virtual course on "Government in the Age of Social Media," which seeks to offer public officials in the region the knowledge to understand, collaborate and participate in social media networks as a management and transparency tool, as well as to facilitate the understanding of the dynamics that arise from the interaction between governments and citizens.
The initiative responds to the mandates of OAS member states that have urged taking advantage of the access to and use of information and communication technologies to strengthen public institutions in the age of the knowledge society. The course will run for eight weeks, will include the development of a social media strategy, and will be taught in Spanish. The deadline for registration is September 27.
The course was designed based on the increased importance taken on by social media networks, which occupy a privileged place in modern life energizing and modifying the way by which society interacts and communicates. Recognizing the impact that these changes imply for governance, the Virtual Campus offers a course that supports public officials in the region and provides them with the tools for analysis and decision-making on the use of social media as applied to government institutions.
The Virtual Campus, which began ten years ago, is currently offering 20 online courses, some of them in English and French. There will be scholarship opportunities available for the course on government in the era of social media.
More information on the First Edition of the Course "Government in the Era of Social Media" is available here (Spanish).