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 WORKSHOP EXPLORES LOCAL GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY IN CENTRAL AMERICA
June 6, 2004
Efficiency and transparency in local government featured as overarching themes of a workshop that brought experts and more than 140 participants to Guatemala City, to examine cadastre and land registry issues in Central American municipalities. The May 31 to June 3 event took place just ahead of the three-day Organization of American States (OAS)General Assembly that opens in Quito, Ecuador, today.
Municipal government experts from Guatemala, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Spain shared experiences and expertise in cadastre and land registry issues with participants from more than 50 municipalities in Central America, Mexico and the Dominican Republic. The workshop drew active participation from municipal associations from all the countries as well as from United States, Guatemalan and Spanish private sector enterprises.
The participants shared experiences on which they will draw when developing their own cadastre and land registry projects and plans. Specific recommendations emerging from the meeting underscored the need for legislation on cadastre and land registry to be enacted and enforced. The lack of legislation in the subregion was determined to be a major obstacle to transparent and efficient cadastre and land registry activities.
Other recommendations emphasized the need to engage the citizenry in projects and programs from the beginning, as citizen participation remains indispensable to understanding the costs and benefits involved in implementing cadastre and land registry systems.
Participants will continue collaborating on specific projects, through the IACD’s virtual working group on the Educational Portal of the Americas platform. A CD containing all presentations—audio and written—along with other documentation, including conclusions and recommendations, will be made available to the workshop participants as well as municipalities and municipal associations in all Member States.