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.
The OAS Presented Recommendations to Improve the Electoral System of El Salvador
July 17, 2014
As part of an accountability process organized by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (SET) of El Salvador, the Department of Electoral Cooperation and Observation (DECO) of the Organization of American States (OAS) presented the results of a technical cooperation project carried out in 2013 and the Electoral Observation Mission (EOM) deployed in 2014. The main objective of these activities was to support the improvement of the Central American country’s electoral institutions.
During the presentation, the head of DECO´s Technical Cooperation Section, Maria Teresa Mellenkamp, explained the study performed by the OAS’ technical experts who, from October to December 2013, reviewed the implementation of the recommendations of the Comprehensive Audit of the Electoral Register of 2007. The analysis revealed that 64% of recommendations have been implemented, at least partially. In these sense, Mellenkamp stressed “the importance of reviewing the organizational structure of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal in order to ensure that it has a modern management model that responds to citizens’ demands.”
Also, the OAS/DECO´s specialist presented the recommendations of the Electoral Observation Mission deployed this year to monitor presidential elections. In this regard, she explained, inter alia, the need to expand the jurisdictional functions of the Tribunal as well as to define precisely the division of the jurisdictional electoral competences of the Tribunal and the Supreme Court of Justice. The OAS/EOM also recommended evaluating the possibility of modifying the structure of the electoral authority. The Mission suggested the division of the structure of the electoral authority, separating it in a multi-party body for the administration of the process and in a jurisdictional entity with no ties to the parties. If the unified scheme is maintained, the OAS/EOM proposed abandoning its currently partisan composition.
Once the 2015 legislative and municipal elections are held, there will be a window of opportunity to modernize the electoral entity and its processes, as there will be no elections in the following three years. OAS/DECO reaffirms its commitment to continue supporting the work of El Salvador’s electoral authorities that have showed continuous interest in improving their electoral service.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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