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 Organization of American States has hailed last Sunday's the presidential elections in Colombia, won by Alvaro Uribe, noting the courage of the millions of citizens that turned out to vote to freely and directly express their opinion.
OAS Permanent Council Chair, El Salvador's Ambassador Margarita Escobar, expressed the hemispheric body's congratulations to the people and government of Colombia, during a meeting Tuesday. She also cited a press release from the OAS Electoral Observation Mission in Colombia, led by Santiago Murray, underscoring the normal conditions under which the elections took place. The OAS also hailed the Colombian election authorities for the speedy posting of election results.
Meantime, U.S. Ambassador to the OAS, Roger Noriega, also offered his government's congratulations to Colombia and made special mention of the country's armed forces and national police, "for providing a secure environment in which the elections could be held."
Colombia's Permanent Representative, Humberto de la Calle, thanked the OAS for its team of electoral observers led by Santiago Murray. He described Sunday's elections as "a milestone in our country's democratic history." He noted as well that "the citizens overcame all kinds of threats from various extremist quarters and went out to vote to express their deep support for institutions and for order-all essential elements of representative democracy as enshrined in the Inter-American Democratic Charter."
The Council Chair also announced that a preliminary report from the OAS Electoral Observation Mission is to be presented to the Council at its next sitting, scheduled for next June 19.
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