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 Colombia Convene Ministers and Authorities of Science and Technology in Medellín
November 1, 2017
The Fifth Meeting of Ministers and High level Authorities on Science and Technology of the Americas (V REMCYT) will be held on November 2 - 3, 2017 in Medellín, Colombia. The meeting is coordinated by the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation of Colombia (COLCIENCIAS) under the theme "Science, Technology and Innovation as Pillars of Transformation in the Americas."
The event will offer an opportunity to put science, technology and inclusive innovation on the agenda of the leaders of the region and recognize the relevance of science and technology to increase productivity, exports, strengthening competitiveness and address the problems of corruption in the Americas. In addition, participants are expected to adopt the hemispheric cooperation agenda within the framework of the Declaration of Medellin, with which the States commit themselves to close the digital economic and social gaps in the Americas.
Among the issues that the leaders will address in Medellín are:
equitable access to technologies;
Inclusive education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics;
generation of products and services with high added value and creation of quality jobs;
production of clean and renewable energies;
sustainable transportation;
food security at the regional level and support for technology-based small and medium-sized industries (PYMES)
The two-day meeting will be opened by the OAS Assistant Secretary General, Nestor Mendez; the Director General of the Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation of Colombia (COLCIENCIAS), Cesar Ocampo and the Mayor of the City of Medellin, Federico Gutierrez.
Additional information about the V REMCYT is available here.