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.
ACTS OF TERRORISM CANNOT DERAIL
DEMOCRACY IN COLOMBIA, ASSERTS OAS CHIEF
March 6, 2002
Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General César Gaviria warned the hemisphere today that illegal armed groups in Colombia were violating international humanitarian law on a systematic and ongoing basis.
The Secretary General made the assertion while inaugurating a special meeting of the Organization's Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs, called to discuss the promotion of and respect for international humanitarian law. Gaviria argued that the continuance of democracy is not at issue in Colombia. "Democracy is supported by 40 million Colombians and the entire international community of nations, and cannot be derailed by acts of terrorism or barbarism."
A former president of Colombia, Gaviria noted that the systematic attacks that guerilla and paramilitary groups perpetrate against the civilian population "are a flagrant violation of international humanitarian legal instruments and, thus, violate as well the rights of hundreds of thousands of Colombians." He said the guerilla and paramilitary groups that are violating the rules of international humanitarian law "should be served notice that the international community is better organized to ensure that crimes such as theirs shall not go unpunished."
Gaviria endorsed statements by President Andrés Pastrana that "Colombia is and will remain a stable and solid democracy." The Secretary General welcomed as "a crucial step in that direction," the Colombian government's decision to move urgently on a bill to ratify the Rome Statute to establish the International Criminal Court.
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