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.
DEPARTING ARGENTINE AMBASSADOR STRESSES
IMPORTANCE OF DEMOCRACY
March 13, 2002
Ambassador Raúl Ricardes, Argentina's Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States, today called for deeper commitment to values and practices that are vital to democracy, asserting that democracy is "the only system that can guarantee economic and social development."
Concluding his tour of duty, Ricardes told the Permanent Council that given today's complex international scenario, multilateral agencies must help develop and boost cooperation in every field of endeavor and lend political support to peace and development initiatives by the countries of the Americas.
The Argentinean diplomat argued that human rights cannot be divorced from democracy and development. He also called for renewed commitment to strengthen human rights protection mechanisms to tackle violence and impunity, address delays in justice and the need to keep the judiciary independent, and protect economic and social rights.
Touching on the September 11 attacks, Ricardes said "no country is immune to transnational crime, and every country should therefore tackle the problem of terrorism." He noted that the Hemisphere's foreign ministers had mandated the OAS to draft an Inter-American Convention against Terrorism, adding that, "based on how well the negotiations have been moving, we expect to wrap up the work soon and adopt the Convention shortly thereafter."
In his farewell remarks on behalf of all the member state delegations, Permanent Council Chairman Ambassador Blasco Peñaherrera of Ecuador lauded the Argentinean envoy's "intelligence, professional talent and sound diplomatic skills." The Chairman noted as well "how brilliantly Ricardes had steered the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs, leading to remarkable progress in considering the priority issues on our hemispheric agenda."
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