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.
Objective:
To promote and create a dialogue on innovation in our region, as an important element for the strengthening of public administration and democracy.
During the event, initiatives from different OAS member states were presented, grouped into four (4) presentations: 1. Innovation on Human Talent Management for quality of public services; 2. Social Innovation for a collaborative government; 3. Innovation for an Open Government at the service of citizenry; 4. Innovation on Municipal Public Management.
Date and place of the event: March 5th and 6th, 2015; Pachuca de Soto, Hidalgo, Mexico
Purpose:
To share and disseminate innovative experiences in effective public management, with the goal of strengthening the efforts of multilateral and horizontal cooperation that the OAS/DEPM promotes in the Region; with the mission of contributing to make public institutions more transparent, effective and have mechanisms of citizen participation.
During the Seminar, several initiatives from the OAS countries were presented, which were divided into five (5) Panels: Panel 1: Planning and/or Evaluation of Public Policies; Panel 2: Open Government and Access to Public Information; Panel 3: Inter-institutional Coordination of Public Policies and Programs; Panel 4: Quality in Public Policy; and Panel 5: Human Resources Management.
Date and place: March 13 – 14, 2014 / Panama City – Panama.
Purpose:
To disseminate initiatives that countries of the region are developing and implementing in topics related to inter-institutional coordination, fiscal reform, updates on civil registry, e-government, strategic planning and access to public information.
In this event, speakers from six (6) OAS Member States such as Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Jamaica presented their own innovative experiences in public management; along with representatives from international organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), The Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
In addition, eighteen (18) OAS Member States participated through representatives of their missions.
Date and place: September 21, 2012 / Washington D.C. – United States of America.
Purpose: To foster the creation of public policy observatories by making information available to public officials, the academic community, scholars of public administration, and public in general, on their usefulness and performance, as well as experiences in the region.
Purpose: This study seeks to contribute elements for the in-depth exploration of the nature, work, and scope of the Public Management Guiding Institutions in the Americas; and, in pursuit of that goal, during the first quarter of 2013, the OAS Department for effective Public Management (DEPM) organized a hemispheric consultation among the Public Management Guiding Institutions of its 34 Member States, with a total of 23 responses received.
This Consultation was carried out using a standardized Surrey of 48 questions, structured around four axes that reflect a complete development cycle for a public policy within any agency: Strategic Management Axis, Process Management Axis, Results Management Axis, and Institutional Relations Management Axis.
Date of Publication: March 11th, 2014
Purpose:
It seeks to disseminate and share different initiatives carried out by the States pertaining to the Inter-American System in topics related to inter-institutional coordination, fiscal reform, updates on civil registry, e-government, strategic planning and access to public information.
This Publication is base on the I International Seminar: “Innovative Experiences in Public Management and Regional Cooperation strategies”, held on September 21st, 2012 / Washington DC- United States of America.