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 vision and principles of promoting peace, regional cooperation and hemispheric unity articulated by the liberator Simón Bolívar continue to guide the work of the Organization of American States (OAS), the Chair of the OAS Permanent Council, Ambassador Henry L. Illes of Suriname, said today.
During a protocolary session of the Permanent Council to commemorate the birth of Bolívar 223 years ago, Ambassador Illes said that “it is fitting that we honor his memory by renewing our pledge to the essential purposes that guide the Charter responsibilities of the Organization of American States, namely to strengthen peace and security in the hemisphere; to promote and consolidate representative democracy, with due respect for the principle of non-intervention; to promote, through cooperative action, economic, social and cultural development; and to eradicate extreme poverty, which constitutes an obstacle to the full democratic development of the peoples of the hemisphere.”
Ambassador Illes recalled that Bolívar’s military victories eventually forged the independence of Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela , the liberator’s native country. He also warned that “despite the onward march of democracy in this hemisphere, democracy is continually challenged by forces that promote violent crime and terrorism, and those that do not respect or embrace the value of free and fair elections.”
“We must stress that the responsibility for maintaining democracy rests not only with the governments, but with all peoples of the Americas,” added the Chair of the Permanent Council.
For his part, the Alternate Representative of Venezuela, Ambassador Nelson Pineda Prada, used the occasion to point out the uncertainty of the world situation and to criticize the “culture of war” that prevails in some countries. “We need to work to maintain international relations of sovereignty, of equality,” he said. “We must develop policies of peace, of integration, of mutual respect;” he added, “even knowing that we live in a world characterized by war, by inequality, by the lack of respect, by imposition.”
Alluding to the “emancipation of the Americas” impelled by Bolivar, Pineda said the present moment in time demands a new struggle, that of combating poverty and social exclusion. “There cannot be peace in a continent such as ours, with more than 260 million inhabitants living in conditions of poverty. This type of situation tells us that we must advance toward the establishment of a new democracy in our hemisphere,” he said.
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