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.
Secretary General César Gaviria told the participants at a special meeting today that the Organization of American States already had made good progress strengthening civil society's participation in its activities.
He cited notable instances, including civil society input that helped shape the Inter-American Democratic Charter adopted in Lima, Peru, last September; and follow-up work on the hemispheric treaties against corruption and terrorism. On the current effort to draft an Inter-American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Gaviria pointed to the "very active participation by civil society organizations."
Fifteen recommendations, "in very general terms," were presented, said St. Vincent and the Grenadines Ambassador Ellsworth John who, as Chairman of the Committee on Civil Society Participation in OAS Activities, presided over the gathering of member country delegates and civil society representatives to discuss efforts by the non-governmental organizations to be more actively engaged in the work of the Hemisphere's principal political body.
Among other things, the groups want information readily available so that more such organizations could seek accreditation, said Ambassador John, who noted that the recommendations are to be referred to the member state delegations for further consideration.
Twenty-seven of the 51 accredited organizations from several member states were represented at today's special meeting, among them the Latin American Industrial Association, Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL), the US-based National Coalition on Caribbean Affairs (NCOCA), the Brazilian Black Women's House of Culture and the US-based Inter-American Economic Council.
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