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 of Foreign Visitors in Mexico begins deployment
April 1, 2022
The Mission of Foreign Visitors (MVE) of the Organization of American States (OAS) that will observe the process of revocation of the presidential mandate in Mexico that will take place next Sunday, April 10, begins its deployment today.
The Mission is headed by Fernando Tuesta Soldevilla, a Peruvian professor and electoral expert. Among other academic titles, he has a doctorate in Social Sciences from the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos. Currently, he is a senior professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). Between 2000 and 2004, he was Head of the National Office of Electoral Processes of Peru (ONPE), a period in which he was in charge of organizing two recall processes of subnational authorities.
Tuesta has four decades of electoral experience. He has assumed roles as advisor and leader of commissions for political-electoral reforms in his country. Additionally, he has participated in numerous Electoral Observation Missions and Electoral Technical Missions in eleven countries in the region. He is the author of numerous books and publications on issues of elections, revocation of mandate, political parties and public opinion.
The Mission, which will arrive in stages in the country, is made up of 14 specialists of 8 nationalities who will analyze issues such as electoral organization and technology, the electoral justice system, access to information and freedom of expression, as well as specific elements of a mechanism of direct democracy. As the OAS has done since the start of the pandemic, its specialists will work virtually and in person.
The MVE/OAS will meet with authorities, representatives of political parties, civil society and academia, among other actors, to hear their opinions on the revocation process. After voting day, the Mission will present a Preliminary Report.
This is the sixth (6) Mission that the OAS deploys in Mexico and the twenty-sixth (26) in which it observes an exercise of direct democracy in the region. The Mission is possible thanks to the contributions of Brazil, Canada, Korea, the United States and the Dominican Republic.
The figure of the Mission of Foreign Visitors, contemplated in Mexican law, enjoys the same functions, privileges and immunities established in article 24 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter for the OAS Electoral Observation Missions.