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 HOSTING CONFERENCE ON
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN CARIBBEAN
January 16, 2002
The Organization of American States is teaming up with the United Nations Development Programme and the University of the West Indies to host a regional conference on constitutional reform in the Caribbean from January 20 through 22, in Bridgetown, Barbados. The primary objective of this conference is to examine the issue of constitutional reform in the region and promote citizen involvement in these processes.
OAS Secretary General César Gaviria and Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur will be among the dignitaries inaugurating the conference on Sunday.
Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines will deliver the keynote address “Westminster in the Caribbean: Viability Past and Present, Prospects for Reform or Radical Departure”.
Attorney General Mia Mottley of Barbados will close the conference with a presentation “Constitutional Reform in the Caribbean: Challenges, Opportunities and The Way Forward.”
The conference will draw constitutional experts, civil society leaders, journalists and government officials to exchange observations on the progress of constitutional reform in the Caribbean. This conference is part of an OAS Democratic Forum Series that promotes greater dialogue and discussion on key issues related to democracy in the Western Hemisphere.