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.
OAS TO OBSERVE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN VENEZUELA
October 25, 2006
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, said today during a press conference in Caracas, Venezuela, that talks held with the National Electoral Council, Venezuela’s highest electoral body, were successful in finalizing details to send an OAS Electoral Observation Mission for the December 3 presidential elections.
The terms for monitoring the elections meet the requirements of the upcoming electoral process in Venezuela and are in accordance with that country’s legal framework, Insulza said. He also announced that former Ambassador of Uruguay to the OAS Juan Enrique Fischer will be his personal representative to head the Electoral Observation Mission. The next step, Insulza said, is to designate the rest of the team and coordinate its arrival in Venezuela.
The Secretary General emphasized that the OAS does not intend to be a protagonist in the process, adding that such a role belongs to the Venezuelan authorities and to the people themselves who will go to the polls. He stressed that the OAS monitors will observe the development of the process with full access to information and that his personal representative will be the only one who will make public statements, as he deems necessary.
Expressing satisfaction with the agreement reached with the National Electoral Council authorities, Insulza stated that the OAS intends to collaborate with the Venezuelan government in its effort to carry out the presidential elections in a normal, transparent manner. The Secretary General said he is convinced that the next elections will follow the same course of other electoral processes that have taken place in Latin America this year. He noted that with the upcoming Venezuelan elections, this year 13 presidential elections will have been monitored in the region, including several with second-round runoffs, and all have taken place within the norms required under a democratic system.
Insulza was received this afternoon by President Hugo Chávez. Earlier in the day he met with Vice President José Vicente Rangel and Venezuela’s Vice Minister for North America, Jorge Valero, as well as with opposition candidate Manuel Rosales.