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.
Women's political participation has made significant progress over the last few decades. However, and independently of the commitments adopted on women's political rights, States have made limited efforts to put these commitments into practice.
Since the 1990s, the majority of Latin American countries have addressed this issue through the adoption of gender quotas.
In recent years, and specifically in Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico and Nicaragua (2008 through 2014), the debate has begun to revolve around the idea of parity between women and men in public life.
Parity is a measure of justice that touches on three dimensions:
equal participation of women and men (50/50) in decision-making positions in the public and private sectors, from the international to the local level;
exercise of power under conditions of equality, that is, free from discrimination and violence based on gender and/or sex;
the incorporation of the agenda for women's rights and gender equality
Results:
Democratic Parity in Latin America: The cases of Mexico and Nicaragua
This publication is a new achievement of the joint work that the CIM and International IDEA have been developing over the last decade to strengthen the political rights of women in democracies. In 2013, the CIM and International IDEA made a first effort to document the processes that led to the approval of parity in three countries: Ecuador, Bolivia and Costa Rica. In this new edition, the scope of the initial study has been extended to the analysis of two important experiences: Mexico and Nicaragua.
Download the full publication in: Spanish (not available in English)
Banking on parity: Democratizing the political system in Latin America
This series of analytical case studies explores the adoption and preliminary implementation of parity in Bolivia, Costa Rica and Ecuador as a sustainable and institutionalized alternative to quotas or other affirmative action measures.
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Quota Laws: State of the Art, Good Practices and Persistent Challenges in the Andean Region
The aim of this study is to highlight the current state women's political representation in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a specific focus on the Andean region, as well as the state of the art in electoral gender quota laws in the eleven countries that have adopted them.
Download the full publication in: Spanish (not available in English)
Special session of the Andean Parliament on the implementation of quota laws (May 6th and 7th 2010, Lima)
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