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.
INSULZA: REGIONAL INTEGRATION IS A PENDING ISSUE IN THE AMERICAS
April 24, 2007
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, said today that regional integration should not be a rhetorical exercise but a real process, and that it continues to be one of the pending issues on the hemispheric agenda. Insulza was speaking in Santiago, Chile, at a conference to present the Latinobarómetro firm’s report on Opportunities for Regional Cooperation, Integration and Energy, which talks about the lack of trust between nations of the region.
Although he played down this characterization, Insulza acknowledged that mistrust does exist in international relations and looked for explanations in terms of the matters that tend to drive interactions between countries, such as immigration, trade, social issues, border problems and others. There will always be a lack of trust among neighboring countries, which will be overcome only by strengthening bilateral relations, he said. The message of the report is clear, Insulza noted; proximity does not necessarily imply friendship, but shows that integration processes are difficult and that governments have the enormous challenge of generating trust.
Insulza referred to the European integration experience as an example of how, with effort and political will, positive results can be achieved. He contrasted this with what he called a lack of willingness on the part of the countries of the Americas to bring about integration, which implies ceding a degree of sovereignty to a supranational entity that makes decisions on behalf of all. Although Latin America started talking about integration long before the European Union—even prior to both World Wars—Europe now has successful results to show, while the process in the Americas is currently at a standstill, Insulza pointed out.
He also mentioned the lack of a mechanism for resolving controversies, the insufficient will of the stronger nations to provide more resources than the smaller ones, and the intermittent nature of the integration effort. Europe, he said, set an example of persistence.
The OAS Secretary General lauded the efforts of the Andean Development Corporation (CAF) and its leader, Enrique García, along with the polling company Latinobarómetro, for contributing information on trends in opinion throughout the region.
Insulza will also participate in the World Economic Forum meetings that begin tomorrow in the Chilean Capital.
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