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.
ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES SIGNS AGREEMENT
TO HOST OAS MEETING ON SECURITY
December 19, 2002
St. Vincent and the Grenadines will be hosting the Second High-Level Meeting on Special Security Concerns of Small Island States, next January 8 through 10. Delegates are expected to consider establishing a voluntary fund and a management model to help such island nations tackle security-related problems.
Ambassador Ellsworth John announced the proposals today as he signed the agreement with Organization of American States (OAS) Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi to host the conference in Kingstown. He highlighted poverty alleviation and unemployment as “two major issues weighing heavily on our governments,” noting that the high-level meeting—the first of which was held in El Salvador in 1998—provides “an opportunity for us to look at all the different issues that…would impact on our security.”
Noting the traditional focus of hemispheric security discussions on military issues, Ambassador John declared that “unless we can deal with the issue of poverty, our Hemisphere would never be secure” because poverty poses a serious threat that does not only affect the small island states.
The Vincentian diplomat thanked in particular the governments of the United States and Canada for devoting financial and human resources towards the OAS conference.
For his part, the Assistant Secretary General stressed that it is extremely important to find viable mechanisms to help small island states better insert themselves into the international system, “in a way that will enable them to better safeguard their well-being and that of their citizens.”
He agreed with the Ambassador, saying the January meeting will give the OAS member states an opportunity to be more aware of the issues and will also prepare the way for the conference on regional security slated for Mexico City next May. He also commended Ambassador John for his leadership on preparations for the Kingstown conference.
The video from the today’s signing ceremony can be viewed on the OAS website, at www.oas.org.
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