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.
AT BOLIVIA MEETING, OAS TO CONTINUE NEGOTIATING DECLARATION ON RIGHTS OF HEMISPHERE’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
April 20, 2007
Representatives of Organization of American States (OAS) member countries and of the hemisphere’s indigenous peoples are set to meet in La Paz, Bolivia, beginning Monday, to continue discussing the draft American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Bolivia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship, David Choquehuanca Céspedes, will inaugurate the tenth meeting of the OAS Permanent Council’s Working Group charged with drafting the declaration. During their weeklong meeting, the delegates will consider such crucial aspects of the draft as the rights of native peoples of the Americas to education, health, freedom of expression, autonomy and self-determination.
The Working Group’s Chairman, Ambassador Juan León of Guatemala, expressed the hope that the governments and the indigenous peoples “will reach consensus on various articles of the declaration, given the widespread awareness that effective and urgent action must be taken in order to improve living conditions and to redress the misery and the grave and persistent abuse and violation suffered by indigenous peoples throughout the hemisphere.”
León, who serves as Guatemala’s Ambassador to Ecuador, thanked the government of Evo Morales for hosting the meeting, which follows through with the OAS General Assembly mandate to continue negotiating the articles on which the indigenous peoples and representatives of the 34 member states have yet to agree. The mandate is also intended to foster broad and active participation of indigenous representatives in the negotiations.
The decision to draft an American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples came nearly 20 years ago, when the OAS Permanent Council asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to explore the possibility of drafting a legal instrument.
Prior to the tenth negotiating meeting—from April 20 to 22—participants will gather in La Paz for an Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus, to define strategies and discuss the language of texts that will be negotiated.
Bolivia is the third country in Latin America to host a negotiating meeting. Guatemala was the site of a previous meeting, in October 2005, and Brazil in March 2006. “Holding these meetings outside of OAS headquarters takes the issues closer to indigenous peoples and to other interested parties who lack sufficient funding to make costly trips outside of their countries,” Ambassador León noted.
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