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.
NICARAGUAN DEFENSE MINISTER CALLS FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT
FOR CLEARING LANDMINES
October 17, 2002
The Defense Minister of Nicaragua, José Adán Guerra, today called on the international community to continue its support for clearing landmines in his country, saying more than $15 million is needed over the next three years to remove the remaining antipersonnel mines and to implement mine-related educational and social programs.
Speaking at the Organization of American States (OAS) to representatives from countries who donate to the OAS Mine Action Program , Guerra said Nicaragua now belongs to "a select group of countries in the world that are free of stockpiled mines," having destroyed the last of these in August. Guerra also noted that some 75% of mined territory has been cleared, demonstrating his country's commitment to "declare Nicaragua free of antipersonnel landmines by the year 2005."
At the meeting, OAS Secretary General César Gaviria presented an overview of the program's progress and challenges, and thanked the donor countries for their support. "Our greatest tribute to the children, women and men who have died or been injured by mines is to fulfill our common desire that these types of tragedies should never again happen in our countries," he said.
Canadian Mine Action Ambassador Ross Hynes pledged a $250,000 contribution to the OAS-coordinated program on behalf of his government, warning that "there is a real risk of donor fatigue setting in." Hynes stressed that "we have here in the Americas a unique opportunity to finish what we started, to get the job done within the time frames prescribed by the Ottawa Convention." In the next few months, he added, "the world will witness the two first mine-affected countries in the world to declare themselves mine-free since the signing of the Ottawa Convention, Costa Rica and Honduras."
The OAS Unit for the Promotion of Democracy has been coordinating demining operations continuously in Central America since 1995 and has been carrying out a mine action program in Peru and Ecuador since last year. Colombia has also invited the OAS to help victims of landmines and raise awareness about the problem.
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