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.
OAS COUNTRIES AFFIRM SHARED COMMITMENT TO MEET SECURITY CHALLENGES
October 28, 2003
MEXICO CITY – As the Special Conference on Hemispheric Security continued today, foreign affairs ministers and other high-level delegates from the 34 member countries of the Organization of American States (OAS) resumed their discussion on how to tackle new threats to security and peace in the region.
The conference will conclude this afternoon with the adoption of the Declaration on Security in the Americas, a wide-ranging document that affirms shared values and outlines commitments and measures for cooperative action. Mexican President Vicente Fox will speak at the closing ceremony.
In opening the hemispheric meeting yesterday, OAS Secretary General César Gaviria described the Declaration on Security as underscoring “our nations’ deep-seated interest in maintaining peace and security through cooperation and collective action, and the enormous work that must be done to ensure peace.”
Gaviria expressed his conviction that a peaceful hemisphere is possible and said, “We all need each other—powerful and not so powerful countries alike.” Gaviria warned about the potential negative consequences of the “breakdown in governance in a number of our countries” and referred to different types of crises in the region: economic, as in the case of Argentina; political, such as in Venezuela; military and terrorism problems, such as in Colombia; and social crises, as in Bolivia. Such crises “could have enormous, far-reaching repercussions,” he said.
Gaviria stressed the need to continue working on a common security agenda to address the values and problems of the countries of the region, saying such an agenda “should be based on consensus as well as on open and frank democratic dialogue.”
In his remarks, Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs Luis Ernesto Derbez spoke about threats to security in a globalized world, where terrorism, organized crime, drug trafficking and other crimes transcend national borders. “Mexico believes that the inter-American system—and the OAS in particular—has the tools needed to promote regional cooperation to more effectively combat new threats to security,” he said. “Those mechanisms need strengthening, with all of us actively participating,” he added.
The hemispheric meeting has drawn participation from nearly thirty government ministers, including foreign affairs and defense ministers. Before the formal opening of the conference, member state delegates met with representatives of several civil society organizations, to share ideas and views on the issue of hemispheric security in the Americas.