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.
Statement by OAS General Secretariat on Visit of Mexican Foreign Minister and Members of Congress
June 26, 2018
The OAS Secretary General, Luis Almagro, met on June 26 with the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Luis Videgaray Caso, and a multi-partisan delegation of Mexican legislators headed by the President of the Senate, Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, to address the migration crisis by which children have been separated from their parents in the United States-Mexico border area.
The separation of children from their parents and/or mothers is an inhuman and cruel act that not only lacks legal and political justification, but absolutely lacks any moral logic.
The OAS General Secretariat maintains its firm position in favor of migrants, their rights, and the principles contained in inter-American regulations. In this regard, the General Secretariat endorses the draft resolution prepared by the Government of Mexico, which will be presented to the OAS Permanent Council in the coming days.
The OAS General Secretariat also reiterates the need for the immediate deployment of an on-site visit by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to verify the situation and prepare recommendations for action, since the detention of minors is unacceptable from the point of view of the international regulations and the inter-American system.
It is essential that all necessary measures are adopted to resolve the situation of at least 2,300 minors who have been separated from their parents, mainly coming from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
For the OAS, as expected of the international community that is attached to international law, speeches and actions based on hatred and xenophobia that violate the human rights of migrants are unacceptable.