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.
The governments of Chile, Grenada and Paraguay today reaffirmed their commitment to the inter-American system by ratifying a series of Organization of American States (OAS) conventions on the fight against corruption, terrorism and arms trafficking. Other treaties ratified at OAS Headquarters today relate to conflict of laws concerning the adoption of minors and mutual assistance in criminal matters.
Grenada's Ambassador to the OAS Denis Antoine deposited instruments ratifying the Inter-American Convention against Corruption, the Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms and the Convention to Prevent and Punish Acts of Terrorism. The Grenadian diplomat also deposited instruments whereby his government ratified the Inter-American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters.
Ambassador Diego Abente Brun of Paraguay, meanwhile, signed the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Acts of Terrorism. This treaty was adopted in Washington in 1971 and so far has 14 countries that have ratified.
And, Chile's Ambassador to the OAS, Esteban Tomic, deposited his government's ratification instruments pertaining to the Inter-American Convention on Conflict of Laws Concerning the Adoption of Minors, which was adopted in Bolivia in 1984. To date, six countries have ratified.
The anti-corruption treaty was adopted in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1996 and has been ratified by 24 states. The hemispheric convention on illegal firearms manufacturing and trafficking was adopted in 1997 and has been ratified by 15 OAS member states.
Adopted in Nassau, The Bahamas, in 1992, the Inter-American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters has so far been ratified by five countries.