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 AND CANADIAN AGENCY LAUNCH GENDER MAINSTREAMING PROJECT
May 20, 2002
The Organization of American States (OAS) through the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM), its advisory body on matters related to women, and the Canadian Agency for International Development (CIDA) will launch a Gender Mainstreaming Project as mandated by the Organization's General Assembly.
The jointly coordinated endeavor aims at equally, equitably and appropriately benefiting women and men in OAS funded projects.
The joint OAS/CIDA project presentation will take place on May 22 at 9:45 a.m. in the OAS Hall of the Americas, within the framework of the implementation of the Inter-American Program on the Promotion of the Women's Human Rights and Gender Equality and Equality. Participants will include; Directors, Executive Secretaries, representatives from diplomatic Missions to the OAS as well members from other international organizations.
OAS Secretary General Cesar Gaviria and the Canadian Representative to the OAS, Ambassador Paul Durand, will open the meeting. The Executive Secretary of CIM, Carmen Lomellin, will proceed with the presentation of the project.
Other speakers will include; Diana Rivington, Director of the Equality of Gender and Protection of Youth of CIDA; Cecilia Valdivieso, Manager of the Gender and Development Group of the World Bank's Network of Poverty Reduction and Economic Management; and Claudio Grossman, Dean of the School of Law of American University and former President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
The project is financed by the Canadian Government and seeks to train 200 OAS professionals at headquarters and 40 abroad in the integration of a gender perspective in all phases of OAS projects. The courses will be offered between November 2002 and April 2003.