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.
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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 Mission Begins Deployment in Costa Rica Ahead of the Second Round of Presidential Elections
March 29, 2022
The Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) for the presidential elections in Costa Rica began its deployment to carry out observation tasks corresponding to the second round of elections, which will be held this Sunday, April 3.
The Chief of the Mission, the former Vice President and former Foreign Minister of Panama, Isabel de Saint Malo, will arrive in Costa Rican territory tomorrow, Wednesday, March 30, to lead the team of 16 specialists of nine nationalities, who will work both face-to-face and virtually to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the process. In addition to the aspects observed during the first round, the Mission will follow up on issues related to electoral organization, electoral technology, electoral justice, campaigning and freedom of expression.
During its stay in that country, the Mission will meet with electoral and government authorities, political leaders, candidates and representatives of civil society and the accredited diplomatic community in Costa Rica to hear their perspectives on the electoral process.
This will be the seventeenth deployment that the OAS has made to observe electoral processes in Costa Rica.