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.
OAS and Mexico Sign Agreement to Hold 47th General Assembly in Cancun on June 19-21
May 17, 2017
The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Government of Mexico today signed the agreement to hold the 47th General Assembly on June 19 -21 in Cancun, the first time that the Latin American country will host the main annual meeting of the OAS.
"Strengthening Dialogue and Concerted Action for Prosperity" will be the central theme of the General Assembly to be held in the city in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo.
The Permanent Representative of Mexico to the OAS, Luis Alfonso de Alba, highlighted that this year's event will include changes in format designed to increase participation and make the debate more dynamic. "We have organized the discussion with a novel format that we hope will allow the Foreign Ministers to have much more interaction, a much more direct, focused, and frank dialogue to find solutions," he said. "It is through concertation that we are going to achieve unity of purpose, and the programs and actions that the Organization can develop," added the Mexican diplomat.
For his part, OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro expressed his belief that the new format will help to deepen the exchange among the member countries on the main issues of the regional agenda. “We can foresee that the 47th General Assembly will be very different from previous years, both in form and content. First of all because the government of Mexico has proposed a renewed format, one that is more conducive to the transparent and frank discussion that is definitely what we need in the hemispheric community”, Almagro said.
The General Assembly is the principal organ of the OAS and is composed of the delegations of all member states, usually led by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs. It is in charge for defining the policies and mandates of the OAS and the structure and functions of its organs. The Assembly Is responsible for the election of the officers of the decentralized and autonomous organs of the OAS such as the IACHR; the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; the Inter-American Juridical Committee, and the Center for Justice Studies of the Americas, among others.
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