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 Online Course on Electoral Observation
November 11, 2015
The Organization of American States (OAS) launched this week a new online course for the citizens of the hemisphere designed to explain the concepts and tools of international electoral observation.
Among the issues in the course are the foundations and criteria for OAS electoral observation, the procedures of observation, and the specialized observation methodologies of the OAS.
Since 1962, the OAS has observed more than 200 electoral processes in 27 of the 34 member states, deploying more than 5,000 international observers. The electoral observations of the OAS are of the highest quality and neutrality, internationally recognized as such, beyond the hemisphere as well as within, with requests for consultations coming from Eastern Europe to Africa. The OAS has extensive and recognized technical expertise in electoral observation and has the highest standards recognized even outside the hemisphere.
In recent years, the Electoral Observation Missions of the OAS have broadened their coverage substantially, in compliance with the precepts of the Inter-American Democratic Charter and including other issues of observation, such as gender and minority participation.
The new course is ten hours long, and can be taken between November 17 and December 4, 2015.
The course, which is part of the OAS Virtual Campus, will be taught in Spanish, and is open to citizens of the member states of the Organization and members of national electoral organizations and universities.