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.
In a bid to promote greater public sector transparency and citizen participation, the Organization of American States (OAS), partnering with the Institute for Connectivity in the Americas (ICA), today launched the “excelGOV” electronic government prizes.
Public sector organizations in 32 Latin American and Caribbean countries are eligible for these awards, designed to recognize efforts to use information and communication technologies (ICTs) to implement strategies to improve transparency and participation. Institutions connected to the executive, legislative or judicial branches or other central government agencies are eligible.
Winners in both categories—public transparency and citizen participation—will be awarded 10 scholarships to pursue OAS e-government training courses, as well as a trip to Canada, where the ICA is based, to observe first-hand that country’s progress in using technology for public services.
OAS Executive Secretary for Integral Development Alfonso Quiñónez explained that the excelGOV Awards were created to highlight progress being made throughout the Americas in the area of electronic government. “Technology is an important tool with which governments can modernize their institutions, increase efficiency, ensure accountability and generally strengthen democratic governance,” said Quiñónez.
Individuals and institutions may submit as many nominations for the excelGOV Awards as they wish by filling out the online application form, details of which are available on the Web (www.redgealc.org). A group of experts from around the region will judge the nominations and select the top ten finalists; these will then be evaluated by a panel of distinguished experts in the field of the knowledge-based society.
In rating the applications, special attention will be paid to solutions that meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Two awards will be given in each category—for best solution and best effort, the latter intended to recognize significant achievements in countries with more limited resources.
This initiative is one of the activities of the Network of Electronic Government Leaders of Latin America and the Caribbean (RED GEALC, in Spanish), an OAS-created forum for hemispheric efforts to promote the exchange of experiences and cooperation in this area. The Dominican Republic will host the next RED GEALC annual meeting, slated for May 24-25, and the excelGOV Awards will be presented at that time.
With technology in the public service becoming increasingly important in the region, last year the OAS General Assembly adopted the Declaration of Santo Domingo: “Good governance and development in the knowledge-based society,” which underscores the importance of ongoing use of ICTs to strengthen democratic institutions.