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.
COLOMBIA RATIFIES THE INTER-AMERICAN CONVENTION ON MUTUAL ASSISTANCE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS
January 14, 2003
Colombia has become the ninth member state to deposit instruments ratifying the Inter-American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters, an Organization of American States’ (OAS) treaty.
Ambassador Humberto de la Calle deposited the ratification documents on January 13, underscoring how important cooperation, exchange and mutual assistance in criminal matters were in 1992 when the Convention was adopted. It is even more important today, he stressed, adding: “A convention like this is very important for the Americas, and particularly for Colombia which, unfortunately, has been ravaged by organized crime.”
De la Calle said that from a practical standpoint, mutual assistance is the best response “to problems that unfortunately grow by the day,” and urged countries that have not yet done so to ratify the treaty, “with the understanding that the avenue of international law must be followed to address these matters.”
OAS Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi, who received the ratification documents, commended Colombia’s role in the development of international law since the early days of the OAS and described the possibility of harmonizing the laws of the respective countries to ensure more expeditious information sharing as “one of the fundamental objectives not only of this Convention but of inter-American cooperation as well.”
Adopted in 1992, the Inter-American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters entered into force four years later. Besides Colombia, the other states that have ratified are Canada, Ecuador, Grenada, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, United States and Venezuela.
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