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.
Hailing Canada's entry Thursday as a member of the Inter-American Defense Board (IADB), Ambassador Paul Durand described the move as a significant step" in Canada's participation in hemispheric security.
"We believe that the IADB has played a very useful role, and that it can be an effective instrument of peace and security in our region," said Ambassador Durand, the Canadian Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), during a ceremony at which the Canadian flag was unfurled at the Defense Board's Washington headquarters. He expressed appreciation to IADB Chairman, Major General Carl H. Freeman, for his support in moving the membership forward. The Ambassador pledged Canada will be "a hard-working, loyal member."
The Canadian envoy went on to state: "We stand at an important juncture in our time - 14 months after the world was thrust into a new security paradigm, and just 6 months before the Special Conference on Hemispheric Security, which will be held next May in Mexico."
He cited that upcoming hemispheric security gathering as a "historic opportunity to address the new threats before us, and re-configure the security architecture of our region."
Canada will be represented on the board by Rear Admiral Ian Mack, Chief of Defense Liaison with the Canadian Embassy in Washington.
An international defense and security body that promotes cooperative security interests in the Western Hemisphere, the Inter-American Defense Board works on such issues as humanitarian de-mining, disaster assistance and confidence building measures directly supporting the hemispheric security goals of the OAS and the Hemisphere's Ministers of Defense. The Board also provides a senior-level academic program in security studies for military, national police and civilian leaders at the Inter-American Defense College (IADC).
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