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 Election of Judicial and Constitutional Authorities in Bolivia
July 1, 2011
Responding to an invitation from the government of Bolivia to observe the electoral process for the Election of High Authorities to the Judicial Branch and the Plurinational Constitutional Court to be held October 16, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, will send an Electoral Observation Mission (EOM) to the country.
As head of that Mission, which began its activities on June 30, Secretary General Insulza designated Martín Torrijos Espino, who was President of the Republic of Panama between 2004 and 2009.
Former President Torrijos Espino has university degrees in Economics and Political Science from the prestigious Texas A&M University. For more than two decades, he was an economic advisor for international firms. In the decade of the 90s he assumed leadership of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) Youth; and between 1994 and 1999 he served as Deputy Minister of Government and Justice.
During the first stage of observation, a team of experts will be headed by the special envoy Enrique Correa, who previously headed OAS Electoral Observation Missions to Ecuador and Colombia. He also served as advisor in several OAS missions to Bolivia.
The experts will observe merit-rating and interviews to be conducted by the joint commissions of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly. They will also oversee the pre-selection of the candidates to the different posts in the Plurinational Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court of Justice, the Agri-environmental Court, and the Council of Magistrates. This process, historic in Bolivia, takes place within the Constitutional norms enacted February 7, 2009, and the Mission is confident that all necessary regulatory instruments for their full development will be formulated and published opportunely.
Afterwards, a group of international observers will arrive in the country and be present during the elections of October 16. At the end of the mission, a report will be presented before the Organization’s Permanent Council.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.