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.
OUTGOING PARAGUAYAN AMBASSADOR SAYS FREE MARKET VITAL TO DEMOCRACY
February 27, 2002
Diego Abente Brun, Paraguay's Ambassador to the Organization of American States, declared today that democracy will bring about prosperity only to the extent that the Hemisphere becomes a free and open market. "Otherwise, our democracies would be reduced to systems to manage growing restrictions and, I fear, would end up collapsing."
Concluding nearly three years at the head of Paraguay's Mission to the OAS, Abente Brun told the Permanent Council that "democracy will not be consolidated without economic development," arguing for the more developed economies to open their markets to products from the region.
"It is hard to understand, for instance, why products vital to our industry and some of our more important raw materials cannot compete effectively in, and for, the markets of the North," he declared, noting "how difficult it is to understand why farm subsidies continue despite being counter-productive."
The Paraguayan diplomat said "the threat of terrorism now more than ever has almost totally changed our very way of life," as he proposed that each country make an intensive and concerted effort to rid the earth of this scourge by strengthening the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE) "as the lead institution behind our joint effort."
The outgoing Paraguayan Ambassador noted as well that since the "tragic decades of the 1970s and 1980s," democracy has revisited the people of the Hemisphere and "our challenge now is to consolidate it." This, he suggested, calls for stronger political party systems, stronger civil society, better electoral systems and a more effective system of accountability.
Ambassador Abente Brun also urged the OAS to be more integrally involved in hemispheric discussions with input and assistance, implementing mandates and preparing an agenda of future commitments. "The OAS must consolidate its role as the backbone of this hemispheric dialogue."
Bidding him farewell on behalf of the member state delegations, Permanent Council Chairman Ambassador Blasco Peñaherrera of Ecuador singled out the Paraguayan envoy's active engagement on the hemispheric agenda issues, especially as regards promoting and defending democracy and human rights.
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