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.
Haitian President Praises OAS-CIDA Efforts in Modernizing Civil Registry System
August 5, 2011
The President of Haiti, Michel Martelly, praised the work of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to modernize the Haitian civil registry system during the inauguration this week of the digitalization lab at the National Archives of the Caribbean country.
President Martelly met with officials from the OAS, CIDA, and the National Identification Office (ONI), and congratulated the OAS team on the work conducted in the framework of the Civil Registry Modernization Project, which has been strengthening civil registry systems in Haiti since 2005.
“How can the State create programs for its people without having an idea of the quantity of people living in the country? It’s at this level that I must congratulate you for the work you do. If you have an education program, we must know how many children there are. For a program to feed children in schools, we need to know how many children there are to feed,” President Martelly said.
“I see that OAS, CIDA, ONI you have put your heads together to implement the national identification program,” he asserted. “Once again I thank CIDA, and OAS, and ONI who are already doing great work.”
In collaboration with ONI and with the financial support of CIDA, the OAS provides technical support to digitalize Haiti’s historical civil registry acts and to develop an electronic database to house the information. To date, the database contains more than 14 million acts and registration information from the 5 million adults registered with a secure National Identification Card. A civil registry database serves as the foundation for a modern civil registry system as it permits the decentralization of services, lends more security to registration processes and improves the quality of service provided to citizens.
President Martelly further underscored the importance of the right to identity as a fundamental pillar of democratic governance, and called on the OAS to accelerate ongoing efforts aimed at registering minors.
The OAS project is currently implementing, in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, two pilot projects in the communes of Cité Soleil and Delmas to modernize civil registry offices and install birth registration systems within public hospitals. This methodology will then be replicated throughout all communes and hospitals nationwide.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.