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 PRESENTS WORK PLAN FOR PROTECTION OF MIGRANTS’ HUMAN RIGHTS
February 14, 2007
The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) today presented its member countries with a work plan designed to promote public policies, legislation and best practices to protect the human rights of migrants in the Americas.
Jean Michel Arrighí, Director of the OAS Department of International Legal Affairs, presented the plan on behalf of Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, during a special session of the OAS Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs. Participants included government experts and representatives of entities within the inter-American system, other international organizations and civil society.
Ambassador Osmar Chohfi of Brazil, who chairs the Committee, noted that “the issue of migration is very important to the inter-American agenda, given the impact that the demographic movement of citizens has on the economic, social, labor and cultural structures in our countries.”
Migration, he added, is a key aspect of the hemispheric experience that affects the politics and practices of both the countries of origin as well as those that receive migrant workers. “It tests the capacity of governments to manage the flow of immigrants in their territories as well as to protect their citizens abroad,” the diplomat said.
In presenting the Work Plan on the Implementation of the Inter-American Program for the Promotion and Protection of the Human Rights of Migrants, Arrighí said that its purpose is to provide a follow-up to OAS mandates on this issue, as well as to organize and plan activities that will be carried out by the different area of the General Secretariat, “as part of a fundamental aspect of the OAS agenda.”
He highlighted the importance of international cooperation in protecting the rights of migrant workers and their families, “ranging from the exchange of information and best practices among countries of origin, transit and destination, to the consideration of the special needs of vulnerable groups of migrants, such as children, women and indigenous people.”
The hemisphere’s leaders, within the framework of the Summit of the Americas process, established the need to strengthen cooperation mechanisms in this area. In fulfillment of this mandate, the Permanent Council, through its Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs, drafted the Inter-American Program, which was adopted by the OAS General Assembly in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 2005. The Work Plan presented today details the activities and objectives of the Inter-American Program.