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 Secretary General Says Change of Government in Peru Reaffirms the Democratic Character of the Region
July 27, 2011
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today stated that political events such as the Presidential transition taking place this week in Peru demonstrate the democratic character of the region and reflect its institutional strength. He made these statements in Lima at the presentation of the Second Report on Democracy in Latin America, which was prepared by the hemispheric Organization and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The report, titled “Our Democracy,” is part of a strategy undertaken by the OAS with the goal of strengthening democratic governance and human development. The work analyzes democracy in 18 Latin American countries and offers recommendations for how governments can improve their results in political and economic matters. Many actors participated in the preparation of the report, including hundreds of analysts, presidents and former presidents, political and social leaders, as well as thousands of polled citizens. The report builds on previous research conducted by the OAS political team headed by former Argentinean Foreign Minister Dante Caputo.
At the presentation of the report at the International Book Festival in Lima, Secretary General Insulza highlighted three central challenges currently faced by Latin American democracies, according to the study: organizing new forms of political participation to counteract representative crises; strengthening republicanism in the State, which is to say, enhancing the separation and balance of powers, and reinforcing accountability; and increasing, in the context of these mechanisms of the Republic, the real political power of the State, modernizing its institutions and providing them with effective human resources.
“Advancing in those areas and designing and executing effective public policies in key fields such as taxation, social exclusion and public security, is essential to democratic sustainability in the region. However, as the report explains, there is currently not enough debate on those topics in Latin America,” the head of the Hemispheric Organization said.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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