The Summits of the Americas are meetings that bring together the Heads of State and Government of the countries in the Americas and seek to build consensus, devise solutions and develop a shared vision for the future of the region in regards to economic, social and political matters. The Summits are held every four years and the first took place in 1994.
Through its Office of Summits Follow-up, the OAS serves as Secretariat for what is known as the Summit Process, through which multilateral agendas are defined and meetings institutionalised via the activities of coordination and follow-up carried out by the unit. Most notably since the III Summit, held in Canada in 2001, the issue of transparency and the fight against corruption has made its way onto the agenda of these meetings.
Civil society enjoys a space in which it can participate in the summit process. Civil society is increasingly institutionalised, thus making it possible, inter alia, for it to offer contributions to the debates that will decide the content of the agendas as well as activities aimed at following up on Summit commitments.

• Consult the transparency commitments undertaken at the Summits
• View a summary of the advances and shortfalls in fulfilling the anticorruption commitments undertaken at the Summits
• Transparency and anticorruption in the forthcoming IV Summit of the Americas, 4-5 November 2005
• Consult the recommendations made by TI at the most recent Civil Society Regional Forum for the IV Summit of the Americas, 6-7 September 2005
• Transparency International´s Press Release in the IV Summit of the Americas
• Transparency International´s Response to Argentinean Foreign Minister
• Role of civil society at the Summits
• Visit the official site of the Summits