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 Government of Brazil hopes that “in the not so distant future” all countries in the continent will be able to sit at the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), said the new Brazilian Permanent Representative to the hemispheric institution, Ambassador Ruy de Lima Casaes.
“This Organization knew how to renovate itself following the historic evolution of our continent. The current times flow under the boost of a new reality and new hopes,” he said.
Ambassador de Lima Casaes addressed for the first time the Permanent Council of the Organization, which held its Regular Session in the Simón Bolivar Hall at the OAS Headquarters in Washington, DC. The diplomat presented credentials last Monday to the OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza replacing Ambassador Osmar Vladimir Chohfi. Ambassador de Lima Casaes was Minister Counselor of the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the OAS between 1992 and 1998.
The new Permanent Representative of Brazil expressed his satisfaction with the evolution of the continent in the last decade, and highlighted his will to fully participate in the work of the OAS. “We should work together, and the OAS is the natural political space for dialogue and co-operation for all countries in the continent to face, in a coordinated and synergistic way, the great challenges ahead,” he said.
Ambassador de Lima Casaes particularly stressed that “Brazil intends on maintaining and, if possible, increasing” the “co-operation with institutions belonging to the Inter-American System of Human Rights”, and specifically mentioned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The Brazilian Representative also mentioned his intention to work on environmental issues, the fight against violence and organized crime, electoral observation missions, the negotiations regarding the Social Charter of the Americas and the support and institutional strengthening of Haiti.
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