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.
ANTI-CORRUPTION REPORTS ADOPTED ON COLOMBIA, PANAMA, CHILE, EL SALVADOR, THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND THE BAHAMAS
December 12, 2007
The Committee of Experts of the Follow-up Mechanisms for the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC) adopted, at the meeting that concluded on December 7, 2007, the reports on the implementation of that Convention in Colombia, Panama, Chile, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas.
The reports, which are part of the Second Round of evaluation on the fulfillment of the Convention, examine in detail the legal-institutional framework and the objective results achieved in each country. They also provide recommendations on those areas where additional progress is required. The issues evaluated in this round include transparency in government hiring of public servants and procurement practices; protection for those who report acts of corruption; and the criminalization of the offenses established by the Convention in this area.
In this Second Round, the reports also evaluate the progress achieved by the States in the implementation of recommendations made by the First Round reports. The latter examined the measures taken and the results achieved by the States in the areas of prevention of conflicts of interest; statements of assets by public servants; oversight bodies; access to public information and other mechanisms for civil society participation in the prevention of corruption; and assistance in obtaining evidence in the investigation and prosecution of acts of corruption.
The MESICIC is a mechanism established within the framework of the Organization of American States (OAS), in which the States evaluate each other—based on conditions of equal treatment—regarding the measures taken and the results achieved in applying the Inter-American Convention against Corruption. In addition, it makes specific recommendations to improve on areas where there are legal gaps or problems that require additional progress. Civil society organizations participate in this evaluation process, contributing information on each country with respect to the issues evaluated, through the submission of documents as well as through presentations at the meetings of the Committee of Experts where country reports are considered and adopted. Both the responses of the States and the documents submitted by civil society organizations, as well as the adopted reports, are available to the public on the OAS website at http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/mesicic_com_experts.htm.
In the Second Round of review, similar reports have been adopted on Argentina, Paraguay, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Ecuador, Honduras, Bolivia, Peru, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago. The Second Round will conclude in 2008.
The recently adopted reports on Colombia, Panama, Chile, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas are available at http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/mesicic_II_rep.htm.