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.
COLOMBIA SEEKS CONCRETE INTERNATIONAL HELP TO TACKLE THREATS
March 12, 2003
Colombia today asked the international community to translate into concrete action the expressions of goodwill conveyed in the wake of recent terrorist attacks in the South American country.
Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS) Ambassador Horacio Serpa delivered the request as he addressed the Organization’s Permanent Council, assuring delegations that “Colombia is devoting all its resources to fighting threats with which the country is faced.” He observed that his country’s problems were scourges shared by other countries. “Terrorism, illegal drugs, common crimes, corruption, poverty and inequity know no borders.”
He cited shared responsibility as a central principle in discussing how to approach common threats, adding that “Colombia would not be a producer neither would trafficking originate there without coca or heroin ingredients being brought in or without traffickers or consumers in other parts of the world.” Serpa noted, however, that by exercising shared responsibility his country managed to break the dramatic increase in illegal crops in 2001, which fell by 15 per cent in 2002.
The new Colombian envoy described the Inter-American Democratic Charter as “a milestone for the Hemisphere,” but warned that “the region still grapples with countless challenges in the quest for better democracy and stronger political parties as the most effective vehicle through which to settle differences peacefully and constructively.”
Ambassador Serpa also conveyed Colombia’s support for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights as well as the Draft American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and suggested the OAS spearhead a hemisphere-wide campaign against poverty and inequality while providing political support for initiatives by other institutions, in order to promote a model for coordination with such multilateral agencies as the IDB, World Bank and UNDP to garner political support for anti-poverty strategies.
Ambassador Serpa was born in Bucaramanga and holds a Ph.D. in law and political science. He has served as Minister of Local Government and the Interior. In 1998 and 2002 he ran for President of Colombia on the Colombian Liberal Party’s ticket.
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