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.
Senior government officials and experts from the member states will gather at the Organization of American States headquarters February 4 through 8, for the Sixth Inter-American Specialized Conference on Private International Law (CIDIP-VI).
OAS Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi and the Chairman of the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs, Argentina's Ambassador Raúl Ricardes, will address next Monday's inauguration, which is open to the media. It will be held in the Simón Bolívar Room, beginning at 9:00 a.m. Uruguayan Foreign Minister Didier Opertti will be among other experts participating.
CIDIP-VI will consider a range of issues such as regional trade, transportation and international protection of the environment—topics which, according to OAS Assistant Secretary for Legal Affairs Enrique Lagos, "have a direct bearing on private international relations in the Hemisphere. They are a very important step towards enhancing integration, investment and credit promotion as well as the transportation of goods, and keeping environmental degradation in check."
The meeting will consider the possibility of introducing standard shipping documents, for speedier movement of goods. The delegates will also examine whether laws are needed in the Americas to provide adequate guarantees covering private loan contracts—a development that would be certain to give foreign investors more incentive to provide more loans to local manufacturers across the region. CIDIP-VI will also consider a proposal for a treaty on international civil charges for trans-border environmental pollution.
Since 1975—when the first conference (CIDIP-I) was held—these conferences, which are convened by the OAS General Assembly mandate, have led to the adoption of important private international law instruments and conventions, particularly on trade, criminal, civil, procedural and family law as well as laws pertaining to minors.
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