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 and the Senate of the Dominican Republic will Promote Innovation and Parliamentary Cooperation
March 13, 2024
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The General Secretariat of the OAS and the Senate of the Dominican Republic today signed a cooperation agreement to promote innovation, modernization, parliamentary diplomacy and institutional strengthening initiatives in the country.
During the signing ceremony, which took place at the OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C., the President of the Senate of the Dominican Republic, Ricardo de los Santos, said his country has "an open, participatory Senate, close to the people." Regarding the agreement, he said "we understand the importance of parliamentary action supporting the work of the four pillars of the OAS: democracy, human rights, development and security," which is why collaboration with the OAS "is of great importance."
For his part, the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, committed to "jointly activate an action plan that will invigorate interparliamentary work, as well as more effectively promote and defend democracy in our hemisphere." Addressing the President of the Senate, he assured him: “Count on our will, commitment and energy so that, within the framework of the agreement that we signed today, we will soon achieve concrete actions to strengthen both the capabilities of the Dominican Senate and the skills of its members, advisors and officials.
The signed document contemplates -among other actions- the implementation of initiatives that will promote more innovative, collaborative and effective parliamentary action, in addition to promoting the strengthening of political representation as a whole.