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.
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Suriname
- Parliamentary Elections on May 25, 2015
Electoral System
Suriname has a decentralized system for organizing and administering elections. The country is divided into 10 electoral districts, which correspond to its administrative districts. The district commissioner, appointed by the president, is the highest government official in each district and also is responsible for election administration in the district.
Article 9 of the Electoral Law, establishes that according to the representation per district, voters shall elect a total of 51 members to the National Assembly (DNA) for a period of 5 years. The National Assembly's task is also to choose a President and a Vice-president within 60 days after the elections.
For the elections of the members of the Local Councils (LC), the districts are subdivided into 62 constituencies (“ressorts”) distributed in the 10 administrative districts. Local Council members (LC) are elected on a winner-takes-all basis, in which the party with the most votes is allocated all the seats in its district. The composition of the Local Councils is allocated according to the population of the constituency/ressort (Electoral law Article 10). The Local Councils are elected for a period of 5 years. A total of 774 members of Local Councils will be elected at the 2015 Elections.
Members of District Councils (DC) are selected indirectly on the basis of the results for local councils. The seats on the District Council are assigned to the political organizations represented on the Local Councils of the district concerned, in proportion to the total number of seats obtained by the Local Councils. The number of District Council seats is based on the total population of the District (Electoral Law Article 11). The District Councils are elected for a period of 5 years. A total of 118 members of District Councils will be elected in 2015.
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Suriname
- Parliamentary Elections on May 25, 2015
