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.
President Fox said the Declaration on Security in the Americas, which the OAS’ 34 member states signed yesterday, details a wide-ranging concept of security that includes social and economic dimensions.
“Of course, our security depends on how well we tackle such scourges as drug trafficking, illegal trafficking in weapons and people, terrorism and organized transnational crime in general,” the President asserted. “But it depends, mostly, on our ability to reverse the serious inequity, poverty and underdevelopment that beset our nations. These are the main threats to stability and governance in our countries and our communities.”
Fox went on to note that the Declaration on Security in the Americas reaffirms OAS member states’ commitment to revitalizing and strengthening the hemispheric security-related organs, institutions and mechanisms, and to evaluate and examine the corresponding instruments, taking into account existing realities.
OAS Secretary General César Gaviria, meanwhile, stressed that the newly adopted concept of security respects the norms and principles enshrined in both the OAS Charter and the Inter-American Democratic Charter. “There has been strong support for multilateralism as the mechanism through which to confront existing security problems.”
Addressing the foreign ministers, defense ministers and other high-level officials, Gaviria applauded President Fox and the Mexican government for their “hemispheric leadership” in hosting the meeting to discuss collective security problems.
In his remarks the conference chairman, Mexico’s Foreign Affairs Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez, underscored the “wide-ranging, flexible and multi-dimensional” perspective the meeting had reaffirmed.
Besides signing the Declaration on Security in the Americas, the member states adopted by acclamation a declaration on the situation in Colombia, expressing solidarity with the government and people of the South American country “in their fight against terrorism and other destabilizing threats, as they defend democratic institutions.” They also adopted a declaration acknowledging the progress made by the Central American countries on the issue of “democratic security.”
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