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.
IN FAREWELL TO OAS, GUATEMALA'S AMBASSADOR CITES IMPORTANCE OF DEMOCRATIC CHARTER
June 20, 2002
As the first multilateral instrument to help countries defend democracy, the Inter-American Democratic Charter will also help nations of the Hemisphere consolidate their achievements, Guatemala's Ambassador to the Organization of American States, Ronalth Ochaeta, declared Wednesday as he prepared to leave his post after two years.
In farewell remarks to the Permanent Council, Ochaeta touched on the major hemispheric agenda issues, suggesting the OAS' priority agenda should be reviewed and updated through "serious reflection on the new environment and the constraints this places on our Organization." He said defending and consolidating democracy, the human rights system, development for the Hemisphere's people and fighting poverty should be the focus of such a review.
The Inter-American Democratic Charter, adopted in Peru September 11, 2001, will not succeed just by its existence, per se, Ochaeta observed, but will depend on our ability—and most importantly our political will—to apply it."
Ambassador Ochaeta said the inter-American human rights promotion and protection system requires the member states' political will to accept the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. "This weakness has made it impossible to consolidate a spirit of equality among the member states."
Besides urging member countries to conclude the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Guatemalan diplomat expressed the hope that the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development would be strengthened and would accomplish its mission, in particular as it relates to securing funds for development projects.
The Permanent Council's Chair, Ambassador Margarita Escobar of El Salvador, joined a number of the member state representatives in lauding Ambassador Ochaeta for his contributions. They praised his commitment to democratic values and human rights promotion and defense.
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