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 Organization of American States and the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) have agreed they should now move forward on a cooperation agreement signed some time ago. The main areas of cooperation would cover trade, including the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and special treatment for smaller economies; transport, especially in port facilities; sustainable tourism; and natural disaster prevention and mitigation.
This decision emerged during discussions in Washington today between the OAS Secretary General César Gaviria and ACS Secretary General Prof. Norman Girvan.
In an interview after visiting with his OAS counterpart, Girvan said the Trinidad and Tobago based ACS, which was formed in 1995, has now established its footing and is ready to move forward on the cooperative agreement. "Secretary General Gaviria and I agreed on the timeliness of activating the ACS-OAS cooperation agreement and to establish direct working relationships between the technical officers in our Secretariat and in the OAS secretariat to identify specific ways in which the cooperation will take place," he noted.
He cited sustainable tourism as "the flagship program of the ACS," and outlined the goal of his Association of 25 member states to establish the Greater Caribbean Basin region as the "first zone of sustainable tourism in the international marketplace." He went on to note that "the OAS has a program for tourism and a program for sustainable development and the environment. Sustainable tourism is where those two things meet, so there is a clear scope for working together in those areas as well."
The Jamaican-born Girvan lauded the OAS' role in helping to develop a response to the fall in tourism stemming from the attacks last September 11. He noted the OAS concern on the social dimensions of tourism, which falls within the sustainable tourism focus of the ACS.
During today's OAS visit, Girvan met as well with departmental directors and with Ambassadors of the ACS member states accredited to the OAS. He leaves Washington Thursday, after meeting with top officials at the Inter-American Development Bank and at the World Bank .
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