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.
Brazil and the OAS Sign Agreement that Ensures the Work of the Electoral Observation Mission for the October 7 Elections
August 23, 2018
The Chief of the Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (EOM/OAS), the former President of Costa Rica Laura Chinchilla, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brasil Aloysio Nunes Ferreira today signed the Agreement on Privileges and Immunities granted to OAS observers in order to carry out their work during the October 7 elections.
Through this agreement, the Government of Brazil commits to facilitating the work of the Mission within its national territory and guarantees the free movement and communication of mission members. For its part, the OAS agrees to carry out its work in an objective, impartial and transparent manner, and with the appropriate technical capacity, as established in the Inter-American Democratic Charter.
The OAS Chief of Mission thanked the Government of Brazil for the invitation--the first ever for the OAS--to observe, “an event of such importance for a country as its elections.” In addition, she highlighted the openness of the Brazilian authorities and their recognition of the professional quality of OAS Electoral Observation Missions.
In December 2017, the OAS and the Supreme Electoral Court of Brazil signed the Agreement on the Electoral Observation Process for the deployment of the Mission, which establishes the conditions under which the electoral observation will be carried out. With the signing of these two agreements, the EOM/OAS can now initiate its activities in the country.
The Mission, which will be deployed to Brazil at the end of September, is carrying out a preliminary visit this week in order to gather information on the progress made in the organization of the elections and learn about the perspectives of the different actors involved in the process.