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.
Message from the OAS Secretary General on International Anti-Corruption Day
December 9, 2015
On this day I call on all the countries of the region to redouble their efforts to strengthen transparency, accountability and integrity in the Americas, and to put into practice the mandates of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption.
Corruption is a crime that has devastating effects on democracy: it degrades institutions, eats away at the basis of the rule of law and alienates the population.
However, ethics in the administration of public policy, transparency and accountability are values capable of rebuilding the trust of our citizens and restoring credibility to politics.
19 years ago this region was a pioneer in adopting a legal instrument to fight this scourge: the Inter-American Convention against Corruption.
The Convention is the perfect legal instrument to prevent, detect, and investigate acts of corruption, punish those who commit such acts, and recover the goods obtained through them. In this document, those who want to fight corruption have a guide and a how-to manual for its elimination.
It is the guide that we are currently using, for example, in the establishment of the Mission to Support the Fight Against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH).
The OAS is also home to the Follow-Up Mechanism for the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC). With on-site visits to the countries of the region including the participation of civil society, the Mechanism has adopted 114 reports with concrete recommendations to improve laws on the prevention of conflicts of interest, the declaration of assets of public servants, the internal controls of businesses, and the classification of acts of corruption such as transnational bribery and illicit enrichment, among others.