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.
HISTORIC OAS MEETING BRINGS TOGETHER THE AMERICAS AND AFRICA
December 11, 2002
Declaring “the ties of Africa and all of Latin America and the Caribbean are obvious,” Grenada’s Ambassador Denis Antoine today emerged from a historic meeting between Organization of American States (OAS) ambassadors and African ambassadors in Washington, stressing the encounter was more than symbolic, but “relevant to the whole issue of linkages” between Africa and the Americas.
Ambassador Antoine, who presided over the special session as Permanent Council Chairman, said the Organization should continue to deepen dialogue that the meeting commenced. He described as “a myth” suggestions of geography and language dividing Africa and the Americas, explaining that during the special Permanent Council meeting the envoys of the continent of Africa and the Western Hemisphere “spoke about the same things: AIDS, poverty, empowerment of women, development, cooperation. We have the same language.”
He cited as one of the “resonating outcomes” of the meeting the participants’ view of the initiative as one “whose time has come and was long overdue.” Antoine also announced that the Organization was processing Nigeria’s application for observer status.
Extending the welcome to the African diplomats—some 30 of them—OAS Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi outlined the Organization’s initiatives on some key issues that were at the center of the exchange—democracy and human rights, cooperation and development and trade.
In his remarks as dean of the corps of African ambassadors in Washington, Djibouti’s Ambassador Roble Ohlaye lauded the “unique initiative” to explore stronger relations to tackle common interests and issues. “Our aim in Africa is to forge mutually beneficial partnerships with a view to be gradually integrated into the global economy,” said the Djibouti diplomat, singling out Africa’s “expanding population, abundant resources and growth potential” as important market prospects for the Western Hemisphere nations.
He pointed to common bonds such as membership in the Commonwealth, Francophone, Hispanic and Lusophone blocs, noting they would help to further strengthen collaboration between the two continents. “Together we must… cooperate in protecting the rights of women, children, refugees and other defenseless people in our respective regions.”
The participants remained very upbeat that the meeting was timely, with several OAS and African diplomats underscoring the need to continue the dialogue launched with today’s meeting, which was the brainchild of the Grenadian ambassador.
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