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.
HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS AN EFFECTIVE SAFEGUARD
AGAINST DICTATORSHIPS AND AUTHORITARIAN TENDENCIES
March 7, 2002
Inaugurating a meeting of human rights experts at the Organization of American States today, Secretary General César Gaviria argued that inter-American human rights instruments have been "a real monument to the values we all share, and have been an effective safeguard against dictatorships, abuses and authoritarian tendencies."
Gaviria told the jurists, experts and member state delegations gathered to discuss "Support for Inter-American Human Rights Instruments" that the inter-American human rights system "is now well poised for take-off." He also gave an overview of how the inter-American human rights system has evolved since the American Declaration was signed in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1948.
Gaviria identified two major obstacles to expansion of the system's reach in the Hemisphere: the question of universal application and the resource situation. He said universal application has been hindered because not all of the OAS member states have ratified the human rights treaty, leaving the hemispheric system to apply different rules to different states.
The OAS Secretary General urged the participants to find "bold solutions," and insisted that "this process has no sacred cows…. By accepting a specific standard to begin with, we can make progress in addressing this critical issue that has hampered our human rights machinery."
Noting that "it is easier to describe than to solve" the resource problem, Gaviria asserted that the human rights system "is still being underfed" and has had to pursue its mission on a shoe-string budget. "If we want to build a human rights system that meets our expectations, then we must find creative ways to redress the resource problem."
Brazilian Secretary of State for Human Rights, Prof. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, is moderating the meeting where participants are considering, among other issues, how human rights treaties have helped strengthen national legal systems; ratification of the American Convention on Human Rights; and other processes to ratify similar instruments.
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