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 and University of Salamanca Sign Agreement to Strengthen Democracy in Latin America
September 26, 2012
The Organization of American States (OAS) and the University of Salamanca today signed a strategic alliance of academic cooperation for the strengthening of democracy in Latin America, during a ceremony at the headquarters of the university in Spain.
Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian, Acting Director of the Department for Electoral Cooperation and Observation (DECO) of the OAS, said on behalf of the Secretary General of the organization, José Miguel Insulza, that the initiative is "an example of the importance” to the OAS of "the exchange of experiences and knowledge with prestigious academic institutions, to continue to work actively in the strengthening of democracy in Latin America."
Daniel Hernández Ruipérez, Rector of the University of Salamanca, said "an academic institution like the University of Salamanca, whose Latin American vocation in set forth in its statutes, should encourage and promote agreements like this that contribute to mutual benefit and cooperation."
The actions laid out in the agreement include the participation of students, researchers and professors of the Latin American Institute of the University of Salamanca in Electoral Observation Missions (EOMs) of the OAS, the collaboration between research teams of the Institute and the OAS to develop joint research, and educational activities, such as courses, which are already being held, specializing in electoral matters and the dissemination of diverse experiences through joint publications.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.