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 STATEMENT AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE REFERENDUM ON THE EXPANSION OF THE PANAMA CANAL
October 22, 2006
Statement by the Chief of the Electoral Observation Mission and Assistant Secretary General of the OAS, Albert R. Ramdin:
On behalf of the Organization of American States (OAS), I would like to congratulate the people of Panama for their peaceful and orderly participation in this process that is so important in the country’s history. I would also like to recognize the Electoral Tribunal and other authorities for their excellent work in preparing for and organizing the referendum.
The OAS deployed a team of 50 international observers. Throughout the day, they were present in seven of the country’s provinces and two indigenous regions. The observers followed the process from the opening to the closing of the polls and observed a normal, calm process throughout the country.
Delegates from the “No” group presented the OAS Mission with documents denouncing that members of the “Yes” group in the referendum “(distributed) propaganda in the vicinity of the polling centers.” The Mission will forward the complaint to the competent authorities and will make the appropriate observations in its final report.
The OAS Mission will present a verbal report on its observations at a meeting of the OAS Permanent Council next Wednesday, October 25.
The Mission congratulates the people of Panama for the elections celebrated today and for the exercise of their constitutional right to vote, in this democratic and peaceful process on an issue of great importance to the country. The Mission will continue to follow the final results of the process.
The OAS Mission expresses its gratitude to the citizens and authorities of Panama for their hospitality and the support provided for the fulfillment of its objectives.