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.
The hemisphere’s highest-level judicial authorities will meet from April 24 to 26 in the Dominican Republic, to further their cooperation in areas such as fighting organized transnational crime and strengthening justice systems in the region.
The Sixth Meeting of Ministers of Justice or Ministers or Attorneys General of the Americas, which will be held under the auspices of the Organization of American States (OAS), will also cover such issues as penitentiary and prison policies; mutual legal assistance in criminal matters and extradition; and cooperation against trafficking in persons and against cybercrime, among other issues.
The Vice President of the Dominican Republic, Rafael Alburquerque, will open the meeting at 9 a.m. on Monday, at the headquarters of the Office of the Attorney General in Santo Domingo. Attorney General Francisco Domínguez Brito and the Assistant Secretary General of the OAS, Ambassador Albert R. Ramdin, will also participate in the inaugural session.
During the three-day meeting, the ministers and attorneys general from 34 countries will exchange information, examine model legislation to confront different types of crime, and consider policies to support judicial reform and modernization. The Justice Studies Center of the Americas, based in Santiago, Chile, will present an overview of the state of justice in the region.
Commissioner Florentín Meléndez of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will make a presentation on the importance of prison reform in the region. Meléndez is the Commission’s Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons deprived of their liberty.
“The rich agenda of the Santo Domingo meeting shows that the countries of the region are cooperating on a whole gamut of issues to confront crime and to strengthen the national justice systems, which are such an important element in democratic governance,” said Jorge García González, who heads the OAS Office of Legal Cooperation.
The OAS is responsible for convening ministerial meetings in different government sectors, in order to strengthen hemispheric cooperation and ensure implementation at the national level of policies adopted by the OAS political bodies and by the Summits of the Americas. The process of cooperation on judicial issues began in 1997, and the last such ministerial meeting took place two years ago in Washington, D.C.
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