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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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.
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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.
OAS MEETING EXPLORES PRIORITIES TO
STRENGTHEN DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE IN REGION
November 12, 2003
Experts from around the Americas are meeting at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) to explore priority strategies to bolster democratic governance in the region. The contributions and recommendations from this meeting will serve as a basis for devising a broad democratic governance program for the Americas.
Convened under the auspices of the OAS Unit for the Promotion of Democracy (UPD), the two-day meeting has brought together some 50 experts, including leaders from government, civil society, international institutions and academia.
Despite considerable gains in democracy in the Americas in recent years, “the fragile capacity of many of these democracies and their leaders to attend to the real needs of countless millions in terms of basic social, economic and cultural inclusions is threatening those gains and is even bringing us to serious situations of ingovernability in a number of cases,” UPD Executive Coordinator Elizabeth Spehar said at the opening of the meeting.
Spehar also stressed the importance of new resources for the needs ahead, given that democratic governance challenges were not only a question of political will but also a question of “having adequate means” to address a complex set of interrelated, deep-rooted issues, among them poverty, exclusion and inequities. Any commitment of new resources for this undertaking should place a priority on increasing transparency and fighting corruption, she argued.
OAS Permanent Council Chairman, Honduran Ambassador Salvador Rodezno, meanwhile, referred to a variety of elements he says are involved in strengthening democratic governance in the Americas, noting they are ongoing priority areas on the Permanent Council’s agenda.
The meeting of experts centers around six working groups exploring governance as it relates to cooperation and integration; economic development; social development; state modernization; representative democracy; and human rights and public safety and security.
The meeting stems from a mandate from the foreign ministers, who asked the OAS to craft a Program of Democratic Governance in the Americas. This will be among the topics considered at the forthcoming Special Summit of the Americas, to be held in Mexico next January 12 and 13.