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.
SECRETARY GENERAL INSULZA EXPRESSES OAS’ CONCERN AT NICARAGUAN DEVELOPMENTS
November 11, 2008
Secretary General José Miguel Insulza has said the Organization of American States (OAS) is very concerned at the difficulties unfolding in Nicaragua as votes are being counted following last Sunday’s municipal elections across the country.
The OAS did not observe these latest Nicaraguan elections, but when it monitored the 2006 elections that brought President Daniel Ortega to power it was the hemispheric organization’s longest electoral observation mission, for which more than 200 OAS monitors were deployed over eleven months.
Secretary General Insulza stressed that “one of the advantages of electoral observation missions is that they help dispel any doubts whenever election results are close, as occurred in Nicaragua in the 2006 elections.”
The OAS chief noted that the Organization has closely followed the recount process, which is still underway. Insulza remarked that since the organization had not been invited to observe any of the latest elections in that country, it is not in a position to comment on them.
Insulza also called on all parties involved to “engage in dialogue in the quest to overcome the current problems,” arguing that any breakdown in the situation would be a backward step for the democratic process. He stressed the need for “the principles enshrined in the Inter-American Democratic Charter to serve as a guide to efforts to find a solution to this serious controversy.”
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