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.
OAS COUNTRIES SIGN HEMISPHERIC ANTI-TERRORISM TREATY
June 3, 2002
With the hemispheric war on terrorism at center stage at the Organization of American States’ General Assembly, now underway in Bridgetown, Barbados, the member states today signed the treaty to combat terrorism in the Americas.
The Inter-American Convention against Terrorism was achieved by consensus among the Organization’s member states. Thirty of the member states’ heads of delegation signed the treaty, with the remaining four expected to sign on as soon as their governments finalize the relevant procedural arrangements to enable this.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, one of those that signed, praised the hemispheric Organization for coming up with the first international treaty since the September 11 terrorist attacks. Powell said his government was pleased the current annual General Assembly session is to also launch a review of the Hemisphere’s security arrangements.
Speaking on behalf of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the OAS, Lionel Hurst, noted that a number of the subregion’s parliaments had already enacted laws making terrorism itself “an organic crime,” and have made a number of predicate offenses “crimes that fall within the ambit of terrorism.”
Chile’s Foreign Affairs Minister, María Soledad Alvear, insisted on the need for the political will to support institutions in the fight against terrorism and such scourges that affect personal and global security as well as peace.
Canada’s Foreign Minister Bill Graham said his country strongly endorses the consensus on the hemispheric anti-terrorism terrorism treaty but was finalizing internal procedures to formally sign.
The Assembly of the Hemisphere’s Foreign Ministers opened Sunday evening and is considering a wide-ranging agenda of priority topics, including anti-poverty and anti-corruption measures, free trade and democracy. A number of delegations also signed the Inter-American Democratic Charter that was approved last September 11, in Lima, Peru.
The ministers are also meeting to discuss the Summit Implementation Review Group.