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.
Honduras Assumes Chairmanship of OAS Permanent Council
April 2, 2012
The Permanent Representative of Honduras to the Organization of American States (OAS), Leonidas Bautista, assumed today the Chair of the OAS Permanent Council, succeeding the Permanent Representative of Haiti, Ambassador Duly Brutus. Rosa Bautista will hold the position for the next three months.
The Honduran diplomat said “the chairmanship that we begin now has the goal of continuing the tone of responsibility, affability, and consensus” established by his immediate predecessors, from whom “we have already begun to ask advice, which we greatly appreciate.”
Ambassador Rosa Bautista pointed out that “during the period of Honduras’ chairmanship we are going to have two hemispheric events of great importance, the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), and the OAS General Assembly in Cochabamba (Bolivia).”
Rosa Bautista noted that his is the third of four countries in a row “bathed by the waters of the Caribbean” to assume the council chairmanship, and promised to “stamp some of the joyful and festive nature of our warm and generous lands” on the position.
The Permanent Representative of Bolivia, Ambassador Diego Pary, assumed as Interim Vice Chair of the Permanent Council, pending the return to Washington of the Permanent Representative of Brazil. The Vice Chair had been held previously by the Permanent Representative of Canada, Ambassador Allan Culham.
Attending the ceremony, which took place in the Gallery of Heroes in the headquarters of the OAS in Washington, DC, was the Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza, the Assistant Secretary General, Ambassador Albert Ramdin, and representatives of several missions of Member States.
The Statute of the Permanent Council establishes that the Chair is to be held successively by each of the Permanent Representatives, in alphabetical order as determined by each country’s name in Spanish, and the Vice Chair in the same manner, following reverse alphabetical order. Both positions have a term of three months.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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