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.
The Director of International Affairs of the Organization of American States (OAS), Irene Klinger, today participated in the Columbus Day celebration, "Meeting of Two Worlds," organized by the National Columbus Celebration Association, jointly with the Department of the Interior, the National Parks Service, the National Mall and memorial parks.
Along with placing a floral wreath at the feet of the statue of Christopher Columbus, Irene Klinger asserted that "the meeting of two worlds was one of the first steps of what we know as a globalized world," highlighting that today we commemorate "the spirit of adventure, the spirit of entrepreneurship and the risk taking of our ancestors. This day also we make a commitment to create a hemisphere that gives voice to the rich plurality of its citizens, including the indigenous peoples of the Americas."
She added that the flags of each of the Member States that are part of the hemispheric Organization and that are displayed in the OAS building "are a testimony of diplomatic cooperation and of the Organization's aspirations to achieve democracy, justice, peace and prosperity in the Americas."
The ceremony was held in Columbus Plaza in front of Union Station in Washington, DC, and was attended by the diplomatic missions of Italy and Spain to the White House, the honor guard of the United States and the Knights of Columbus, among others.