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.
Barbados Ratification Ensures All Active OAS Member States are Part of Anti-Corruption Convention
January 23, 2018
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Barbados ratified the Inter-American Convention against Corruption, making it the most ratified convention in the Inter-American system together with the OAS Charter.
With the action by Barbados, all 34 active OAS member states have ratified the Convention (all member states with the exception of Cuba, which currently does not participate in OAS activities). The Convention, which is a binding legal document on its signatories, lays out a commitment to address corruption in a comprehensive manner. It contains measures for the prevention, detection and investigation of acts of corruption, for sanctioning those who commit acts of corruption, and for the recovery by the State of the proceeds of those acts.
The Convention is backed by a Follow-Up Mechanism (MESICIC), in turn supported by the OAS General Secretariat. The MESICIC is essentially an intergovernmental body that uses a peer review mechanism, with broad opportunities for participation from civil society, which supports the States parties in the implementation of the Convention.
The issue of corruption will be at the center of debate at the upcoming VIII Summit of the Americas to be held in Lima, Peru from April 13-14, which has as its central theme “Democratic Governance against Corruption.”
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