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.
CHALLENGES REMAIN IN REDUCING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN
July 30, 2002
The Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) opened a two-day meeting in Washington Tuesday noting a measure of success in reducing discrimination against women. The second in a series, this is a follow-up on the Inter-American Program on the Promotion of Women's Human Rights and Gender Equity and Equality, and is focussed on gender and justice.
In opening the meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) specialized agency, CIM President Indranie Chandarpal, a former women's affairs minister in Guyana, declared: "Our strategy to incorporate a gender perspective into ministerial level meetings has had very encouraging results to date," citing among others a "very successful" first meeting on gender and labor, recommendations from which were taken into consideration in the declaration and plan of action of the 12th conference of ministers [of labor].
But Chandarpal also conceded that "inequalities in the justice system exist." She identified various factors standing in the way of women's access to justice in the Americas, including many women's ignorance of their legal rights.
Chairing her final session as CIM President, Chandarpal also cited crimes to which women increasingly fall victim: domestic violence and physical aggression, forced prostitution, trafficking for labor and sexual exploitation, and homicides, as well as "horrid mistreatment" in prisons, with little or no access to legal counsel.
In his remarks, OAS Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi congratulated the Commission for promoting an initiative he described as an appropriate strategy for moving forward on gender equity. "Certainly, the OAS places a very high priority on reducing disparities within the Organization itself as well as within the region as a whole."
Explaining gender mainstreaming as a strategy for eliminating gender inequities while building stronger, more prosperous democracies in the Americas, Einaudi noted that the commitment to and development of democratic principles were a hallmark of the new world. These principles rest on equal rights and non-discrimination, he stressed, adding that if one half of the citizens do not have the same opportunities and the benefits as the other half, "democracy simply cannot achieve its full potential."
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