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.
Assuming the chairmanship of the Organization of American States (OAS) Permanent Council today, Ambassador Blasco Peñaherrera, the Ecuadorian Permanent Representative, pledged to continue his predecessor's efforts to make the Organization more dynamic and efficient.
The Ecuadorian diplomat took over from Dominica's Ambassador, Swinburne Lestrade, whose work "during a most complex period" he praised. He said he would lead the Permanent Council to the best of his ability over the next three months.
After presenting his successor with the gavel, Lestrade described his period at the helm of the Organization's second highest decision-making body as "three very productive months." He cited the progress in combating poverty, and wanted to know what specific steps the OAS had taken to implement the mandate to support small states of the Americas.
A lawyer and journalist, Ambassador Peñaherrera served as Vice President of Ecuador from 1984 to 1988. He was Permanent Council Chairman before, during his first stint as Permanent Representative—January 1993 to August 1996. During that period, he also chaired the then Inter-American Economic and Social Council (CIES). Peñaherrera began his second stint as Permanent Representative to the OAS in August 2000.
Among those on hand at today's brief ceremony were Secretary General César Gaviria, Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi, and a number of ambassadors and senior OAS officials.
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