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.
The School of Governance is an initiative of the Organization of American States (OAS) that offers training aimed at strengthening practices of institutional transparency, citizen participation and accountability.
The objective is to train:
Public officials
Political leaders
Social Leaders
Community leaders
The School of Governance offers:
Training offers
Studies
Database
Observatories
Statistics
Webinars
Lectures
The themes addressed by the School of Governance are related to the four pillars of the OAS -democracy, human rights, integral development and multidimensional security- focused from an eminently practical point of view.
The School brings together networks of experts on topics ranging from competitiveness, public procurement, civil registration and identity to digital government, where students can obtain specialized information and consult border issues in each of the study areas.
The School of Governance is currently building alliances with universities and strategic partners in the region with the aim of creating new training offers.
The OAS School of Governance is integrating all the training provided by the OAS General Secretariat. Currently there are 10 available trainings:
Open Government Strategies for the Americas
The Right to Identity, Civil Registry and Vital Statistics
Production of digital content for virtual courses
Cybersecurity course for Micropymes and Autonomous
The Government in the Era of Social Networks
Public Procurement Management
Facilitating access to MSMEs for Public Procurement
Diploma in Public Management for Territorial Development