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.
Financing Democracy Forum Co-Organized by the OAS Opens in Paris
December 3, 2014
The Forum on Financing Democracy and Averting Policy Capture, co-organized by the Organization of American States (OAS), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and IDEA International, opened Wednesday in Paris.
The event, which ends today, aims to promote a high-level policy debate on financing democracy in order to advance an understanding of the influence of money on public policies and ways to prevent policy capture by narrow, private interests.
The Forum includes a high level roundtable, debates focused on specific topics, and a concluding session. Some of the topics that will be examined include: the most effective mechanisms to promote the enforcement of political finance regulations; and how the regulation of political finance affects political participation and the fairness of competition between actors, among others.
The inauguration featured the participation of Ángel Gurría, Secretary General of the OECD; the Secretary for Political Affairs of the OAS, Kevin Casas-Zamora, and the Chief of the Electoral Observation Section of the Department for Electoral Cooperation and Observation (DECO). Secretary Casas-Zamora participate in the high level roundtable titled: Taking stock of where we stand in financing democracy – Challenges ahead.
The audience attending the event is composed of high-level officials from the field of political finance regulation and enforcement as well as stakeholders including politicians and representatives from political parties, the private sector, trade unions, and civil societies. The expected outcome of the event is to contribute to the advancement of the understanding of the influence of money in public policy and the identification of mechanisms and tools in order to strengthen and finance democracy.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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