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.
POLITICAL PARTIES MUST BE PARTICIPATORY, URIBE TELLS OAS CONFERENCE
November 23, 2003
CARTAGENA, Colombia – Colombian President Álvaro Uribe opened the third annual meeting of the Inter-American Forum on Political Parties here, stressing the need for political parties and movements that are truly participatory and open to debating ideas.
“Under certain circumstances, the people can live without political parties. Under no circumstance can parties live without the people, without daily contact with citizens, taking the pulse of their hopes and desires, without hearing their criticisms and demands,” Uribe said at the opening ceremony Sunday night.
In his speech, OAS Secretary General César Gaviria discussed the urgent need to reform and modernize the hemisphere´s political parties and party systems, which public opinion polls show suffer a serious credibility problem.
Political parties need to invest in preparing to govern, instead of putting all their economic, human and institutional resources into the process of winning elections, Gaviria said. He underscored the need to promote transparency in political campaign financing and to establish systems “to prevent corruption, ensure equality and avert an excessive increase in the costs of campaigns.”
“Citizens have the right to know the origin of the monies that politicians use to campaign;” Gaviria said. He called for “an in-depth commitment to transparency” regarding both the sources and the uses of public and private funds.
For his part, Canada´s Ambassador to the OAS, Paul Durand, said that a representative democratic system depends on a tolerant “loyal opposition” to ensure that government can function effectively. “The point is that the task of governing does not belong exclusively to the winning party – it is the responsibility of all elected members to ensure that the government functions, and functions well, for the good of the country and all citizens,” he said.
The meeting here, which continues today and tomorrow, will examine a series of issues related to political party reform, campaign financing and the disillusionment that citizens feel toward political parties and politicians. Panels will also look at case studies of political reforms that have been undertaken in Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru and Central America.
Participants include two former Peruvian Presidents, Alan García and Valentín Paniagua, as well as more than 30 political party chairs of different political leanings. Electoral authorities, academics and representatives of international and non-government organizations are also scheduled to participate.