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 Department of Electoral Cooperation and Observation (DECO / OAS) is the entity within the Secretariat for
Strengthening Democracy in charge of developing and maintaining a permanent and professional service of observation
and technical electoral cooperation for member countries, grounded on efforts for continuous improvement and the
consolidation of related procedures and practices.
Since 1962, the OAS has observed more than
246 elections* in more than 27 countries of the 34 member states of the OAS,
deploying
more than 10,000 international observers.
In 2016, DECO deployed for the first time in the OAS’s history an
Electoral Observation Mission in the United States.
For the first time in more than 50 years of electoral observation,
on October 25, 2015, DECO deployed three EOMs with more than 230 observers
on the same day in three sub-regions of the continent:
Central America, South America and the Caribbean.
The publication of a Methodology to observe the electoral participation of indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in
electoral processes, which was first implemented in the EOM for the General Elections of Guatemala on September 6, 2015.
Crosscutting incorporation of a gender approach, resulting in an increase in the
participation of women in MOEs.
Implementation of 25 technical cooperation projects in 11 countries of the region,
including 5 audits of electoral registries in Latin America.
Increase in the number of women as Heads of Electoral Observation Missions.
Development of the
First ISO International Electoral Standard (17582).
*
As of the Electoral Observation Mission deployed in Ecuador for the second presidential round held on April 2, 2017.
Department of Electoral Cooperation and Observation
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