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.
OAS PRESSES NEED FOR COUNTRIES TO RATIFY FIREARMS CONVENTION
May 2, 2002
Secretary General César Gaviria has made and urgent appeal for all the countries of the Americas that have not yet done so to sign and ratify the Inter-American Convention against the Illegal Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and Other Related Materials (CIFTA), an Organization of American States (OAS) instrument.
Gaviria issued the appeal today while inaugurating the Third Regular Meeting of the CIFTA Consultative Committee, in Washington. He noted that since September 11, 2001, “the world has become much more aware of the devastating consequences of indiscriminate arms trafficking and its connection to terrorism and drug trafficking, and that new security strategies are needed for the Hemisphere.”
He added that “as long as millions of illegal weapons are being trafficked internationally, ending up in the hands of boys and girls and setting off a spiral of violence and anarchy, it will be very difficult to consolidate the rule of law as well as legitimate and democratic authority.”
No one doubts terrorism’s threat to the survival of democracies, Gaviria insisted, declaring that “the OAS has made progress.” He said the draft Inter-American Convention against Terrorism to be presented to the upcoming General Assembly in Barbados “will once again underscore the hemispheric commitment to fighting this scourge and will serve as a frame of reference for similar protocols in the rest of the world.”
In his remarks, Secretary Pro Tempore of the CIFTA Consultative Committee, Mexico’s Permanent Representative to the OAS Ambassador Miguel Ruiz Cabañas, hailed the hemispheric firearms treaty as a trail-blazer. “It is the only binding instrument that sets out the obligations of states parties, defines specific acts as criminal and establishes a framework for cooperation among the states parties.”
He conceded that the ratification and implementation of the firearms convention “is moving slowly,” but expressed a measure of confidence concerning the level of acceptance of the hemispheric treaty.
The Inter-American Convention against the Illegal Trafficking in Firearms was adopted in 1997 and took effect the following year. Thirty-three OAS member states have so far signed. Fifteen of them have ratified: Argentina, The Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
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