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.
HEMISPHERIC TREATY ON ARMS ACQUISITIONS TAKES EFFECT
November 26, 2002
The Organization of American States’ (OAS) Committee on Hemispheric Security today hailed the entry into force November 21 of the Inter-American Convention on Transparency in Conventional Arms Acquisitions, saying it “demonstrates the commitment of states parties.”
Committee Chairman, Mexico’s Ambassador to the OAS Miguel Ruiz Cabañas, greeted the milestone for the treaty that was adopted during the OAS General Assembly in Guatemala City in June 1999.
Canada, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay have so far ratified the convention that seeks to contribute more fully to regional openness in conventional weapons acquisitions by sharing information on such acquisitions, so as to foster confidence among the states of the Americas.
The commitments assumed under the hemispheric treaty represent an important step towards fulfilling an essential purpose of the OAS Charter, which is “to achieve an effective limitation of conventional weapons that will make it possible to devote the largest amount of resources to the economic and social development of the Member States.”
The states party to this convention undertake to share on an annual basis information on their imports and exports of conventional weapons for the previous year, providing complete information on such transactions. The list of conventional weapons includes tanks, bullet-proof combat vehicles, high-caliber artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles and missile launchers.
During today’s Hemispheric Security Committee meeting, several member state representatives welcomed the treaty’s entry into force, urging those that had not yet done so to ratify the instrument.
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