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.
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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.
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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 Signs Agreement to Observe June 25 Elections in Guatemala
April 20, 2023
Photo: OAS
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala, Mario Búcaro, today signed the agreement of privileges and immunities for the deployment of an Electoral Observation Mission to the June 25 General and Central American Parliamentary Elections, during a ceremony held at the headquarters of the hemispheric institution in Washington, DC.
Secretary General Almagro thanked the Government of Guatemala for its invitation to observe the elections and emphasized that sending the mission reaffirms the hemispheric institution's commitment to the region's democratic institutions. "Like all the Electoral Observation Missions deployed by the OAS, this one is seeks the continuous improvement of electoral processes in the hemisphere, to support democratic regimes in the region," he added.
For his part, Foreign Minister Búcaro highlighted his government's commitment that "the future of Guatemalans be defined by Guatemalans." "We want the OAS to witness a lively electoral process, a democratic party like the one we are going to experience and that they see that our democracy after 37 years will prevail and that we can build a better future for our children and grandchildren," added the Guatemalan Foreign Minister.
The Mission will be headed by Ambassador Eladio Loizaga Lezcano, former foreign minister of Paraguay, and will be composed of about 90 people. It is the twentieth Mission that the OAS has deployed in Guatemala.
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