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.
How has the topic of access to information been addressed at the OAS?
Over the past several years the OAS has contributed extensive effort
towards development of the right of access to public information.
The right of access to information was introduced in the
Declaration and
Plan of Action of the Quebec Summit of the Americas (2001) and strongly
reconfirmed in the
Declaration of the Nuevo Leon Summit of the Americas
(2004).
Pursuant to these Resolutions, the Department of International Law has
coordinated or participated in the following projects that contributed
to the advancement of the topic of access to information at the OAS:
Joint Document Recommendations on Access to
Information [CP/CAJP-2599/08], which provides detailed
information on the right to access to information, as well as
policy and legislative recommendations.
Report on the Questionnaire “Legislation on
and Best Practices of Access to Public Information of the
Commission on Juridical and Political Affairs”
[CP/CAJP-2608/08], which contains answers by the States and
civil society to the questionnaire as well as recommendations
from civil society organizations.
Two special sessions of the Committee on
Juridical and Political Affairs of the Permanent Council of the
OAS on the topic of access to information in 2006 and 2008 to
promote, impart, and exchange experiences and knowledge with
Respect to access to information and the relationship with
citizen participation, and to examine the recommendations on
Access to Public Information contained in the Study on Access to
Information organized by the Department of International Law,
Respectively.
The development of a Model Inter-American Law
on Access to Information and an accompanying Implementation
Guide.
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