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.
CANADIAN FOREIGN MINISTER PRAISES OAS, RENEWS COMMITMENT
February 13, 2002
Speaking for the first time at the Organization of American States in Washington Wednesday morning, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs Bill Graham commended the Organization's swift move on urgent measures to fight terrorism.
He lauded the OAS for offering "the first categoric condemnation" of the September 11 attacks on the United States and negotiating an Inter-American Convention against Terrorism. "For Canada, this illustrates that the OAS not only talks—it acts," Graham told member state representatives at a special session of the OAS Permanent Council.
He spoke as well of the growing importance his country attaches to the premier hemispheric body of nations, explaining that Canada joined in 1990 as part of "a deliberate plan to intensify relations with the countries of the Hemisphere and to take part in the dialogue that was defining both the Organization and the collective will of its member states." He added that: "In the past dozen years, the OAS has reached out to member states in their hour of need—from the smallest to the largest…. We have seen countries turn toward the institutions of the OAS for assistance on highly sensitive issues—border conflicts, human rights and crises of democracy."
Identifying specific accomplishments that make the OAS "a relevant, integral and important institution in this Hemisphere," Graham noted that "Canadians are very pleased with the return on our collective investment in the OAS." He cited the Inter-American Democratic Charter, asserting that "no other region can boast a similar document." He observed that the document's bold declaration could not be ignored as it stipulates that "the peoples of the Americas have a right to democracy and their governments have an obligation to promote and defend it."
On the hemispheric Summit mandates, the Canadian Foreign Minister urged a sustained commitment from all member states. He said last year's Quebec Summit had established a balanced and coherent agenda for the hemisphere, grounded in the values of democracy, economic prosperity, social stability and hemispheric security.
Permanent Council Chairman, Ecuador's Permanent Representative to the OAS Ambassador Blasco Peñaherrera, presided at the session, which was attended by Secretary General César Gaviria and Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi, among other dignitaries.
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