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.
Civil society representatives will meet at the Organization of American States (OAS) May 2-3 to exchange ideas about issues on the inter-American agenda and develop recommendations for the consideration of the OAS General Assembly. The annual meeting of the region’s foreign ministers will take place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in June.
The Roundtable with Civil Society, which begins on Tuesday, May 2, will bring together close to 100 representatives of organizations and networks from 22 countries in the region. Following this event, participants will have the opportunity to meet with the member states, during a special session of the Committee on Inter-American Summits Management and Civil Society Participation in OAS Activities.
The Roundtable with Civil Society will examine the main theme proposed for the General Assembly — “Good Governance and Development in the Knowledge-Based Society”—as well as the promotion of democracy and human rights. Participants will also discuss proposals related to the implementation of the Declaration of Florida, issued by the region’s foreign ministers in June 2005, and the Declaration and Plan of Action of Mar del Plata, adopted during the Fourth Summit of the Americas.
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza will speak at the opening of the event, along with the Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic to the OAS, Ambassador Roberto Álvarez.
On the afternoon of Wednesday, May 3, there will be a special session of the Committee on Inter-American Summits Management and Civil Society Participation, chaired by Ambassador Rodolfo Gil, Argentina’s Permanent Representative to the OAS. Civil society representatives will have the chance to share their ideas with the member states and present the recommendations that will serve as a basis for the dialogue between the foreign ministers and civil society, which will take place June 4, in the framework of the thirty-sixth regular session of the General Assembly.
What: Roundtable with Civil Society
When: Tuesday, May 2 – Opening at 9:00 a.m.
Where: Padilha Vidal Room
OAS General Secretariat Building
1889 F St. NW
Washington, D.C.
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