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 Colombia Sign Observation Agreement for October 30 Elections
October 7, 2011
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Jose Miguel Insulza, and the Permanent Representative of Colombia to the hemispheric organization, Ambassador Luis Alfonso Hoyos, today signed an agreement in which the continental institution will send an Electoral Observation Mission (EOM) for the elections of governors, mayors, councilor, delegates, and local authorities, being held in the south American country on October 30.
During the ceremony of the agreement relating to the privileges and immunities of the observers, Secretary General Insulza asserted that “we know the importance Colombia has acquired in the region and making this process work well has for us an international projection of great importance.”
Secretary General Insulza emphasized the initiative of focusing this EOM on the participation of women and the youth during the elections, an aspect in which the OAS is developing a pilot. “We are very proud of the quality of the elections in our continent and we recognize that the electoral system is evolving each time more positively,” he said.
Ambassador Hoyos thanked the support of the OAS, of the Secretary General, and of the countries that technically and financially endorse the Mission, which “is fundamental for this task to continue in strengthening institutionalism, transparency and democracy.”
The Secretary General appointed Beatriz Paredes as Chief of Mission, a Mexican politician who has held positions at the head of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), governor of the state of Tlaxcala, President of the Latin American Parliament, and Ambassador of Mexico in Cuba.
The OAS will deploy international observers in 16 departments of the country. The group will include a base of experts in areas such as electoral organization, electoral legislation, press, coordination of observers, political analysis, and logistics.
Also present at the event, which took place in the office of the Secretary General in Washington, DC, were the President of the Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Guyana, Ambassador Bayney R. Karran; the Secretary for Political Affairs of the OAS, Victor Rico; and the Permanent Representatives of Belize, Canada, El Salvador and Guatemala.
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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