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.
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Responding to an invitation from the government of Bolivia, the Organization of American States (OAS) began deploying a team of observers that will monitor the electoral process leading to the July 2 vote to elect representatives to the Constituent Assembly and to vote in a National Binding Referendum.
Ambassador Horacio Serpa of Colombia is heading the Electoral Observation Mission which includes 30 observers from 14 OAS member countries. Serpa, who will begin his duties on Tuesday, also headed the observation team during the presidential elections last December.
During these elections, the observers will be present in the nine departments of Bolivia. The Mission, which was installed in the city of La Paz on June 22, is made up of a group of technical, electoral, legal and communications specialists.
During the next few days, the OAS team will meet with representatives from the executive and legislative powers, electoral organizations (National Electoral Court and Departmental Electoral Courts), candidates from the different political parties, members of the press and civil society, as well as national and international institutions related to the electoral process. The Mission will issue a press release with observations and subsequently it will present a report to the OAS Permanent Council.
The Electoral Observation Mission is carried out through the OAS Department for the Promotion of Democracy of the Secretariat for Political Affairs, and with the financial support from the governments of the United States, Canada and Spain.