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.
OAS Deploys Electoral Mission to Local Elections in Colombia
October 19, 2015
The Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (EOM/OAS) for the elections of local authorities of Colombia, headed by the former President of Guatemala Alvaro Colom, today arrived in the country to observe the vote on Sunday. The Mission will include 40 experts and observers that will be deployed in 22 departments of the country.
This morning, the Chief of Mission signed the Agreement on the Observation Procedure of the Mission, in which the EOM is guaranteed access to all the information on the organization, management and supervision of the electoral process. Former President Colom will meet with electoral authorities and government officials, candidates, members of civil society and security forces. In addition, he will visit the departments of Cundinamarca and Antioquia to learn about the progress of the electoral calendar in those regions.
On October 25, there will be three OAS Electoral Observation Missions, with more than 230 observers, operating in three sub-regions: Central and South America and the Caribbean. In addition to the Mission in Colombia, there will be observers in Haiti and Guatemala. For the first time in more than 50 years, there will be three EOMs operating in three countries on the same day.