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.
U.S. ENVOY OUTLINES PRIORITIES AS CHAIR OF OAS PERMANENT COUNCIL
July 11, 2002
Ambassador Roger F. Noriega, the United States Permanent Representative, chaired his first session of the Organization of American States (OAS) Permanent Council today, urging the member governments to make the Inter-American Democratic Charter, approved last September 11 in Lima, Peru, "a vital, living document that assists the people of the Hemisphere in reaching the fullest enjoyment of their rights and freedoms."
The U.S. diplomat, who will hold the rotating chair of the OAS' second highest decision-making body for the next three months, highlighted OAS successes, including the approval of the Democratic Charter and the approval of the Inter-American Convention Against Terrorism as well as "our successes in advancing the mandates established by the Summit [of the Americas] process."
Other priorities he cited included the Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism which, he stressed, requires "our enthusiastic support as it carries out our mission to improve cooperation among member states to blunt the threat of terrorism." He also urged support for initiatives to strengthen the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI), the agency that "promotes the well being of the citizens of the Americas, especially the most disadvantaged;" and continued commitment to the anti-corruption and anti-narcotics efforts. On the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), he called for mechanisms to ensure that all the Hemisphere's citizens, "especially those of the smaller economies, will be full participants in and beneficiaries of this process."
Asserting that "democracy, trade and development don't take a vacation," Ambassador Noriega renewed his call for the Council to move quickly to structure the committees and working groups that will carry the critical work of the OAS forward. "The reputation of the OAS as an organization that does things to benefit the citizens of the Americas has never been higher," declared Noriega.
In his opening remarks, Noriega also lauded the work of his predecessors, with particular reference to El Salvador's Ambassador Margarita Escobar, who was presented with a commemorative gavel in appreciation of her service as the previous Permanent Council Chair.
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