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.
NICARAGUA’S RATIFICATION PAVES WAY FOR
OAS ANTI-TERRORISM TREATY TO ENTER INTO FORCE
June 10, 2003
Nicaragua’s ratification, deposited with the Organization of American States (OAS) today, has paved the way for the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism to enter into force in thirty days.
The Central American country became the sixth OAS member to ratify the treaty that was adopted at the General Assembly in June last year.
Depositing the ratification instruments during the OAS General Assembly, which ends today in the Chilean capital, Nicaragua’s Foreign Affairs Minister Norman Caldera said “the anti-terrorism treaty’s impending entry into force shows the OAS can adapt to the times, rather than be stymied or seeking refuge in the past.”
Caldera added: “The Hemisphere now has an instrument with which to rid itself one of the worst scourges of our time—the threat from terrorism.” He said Central America was working together as a united, peaceful and democratic region to tackle terrorism. “And we have one single regional plan that allows us to do that.”
Secretary General César Gaviria argued that the Organization has undertaken not only to uphold principles but also to expeditiously implement existing mechanisms. He observed that “no region has moved as swiftly as we have in the Americas to confront terrorism together.”
The aim of the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism is to prevent, punish and eliminate terrorism, with the states parties undertaking to adopt the necessary measures to bolster cooperation among themselves.
Thirty-three OAS member countries have signed this treaty, with Nicaragua now joining Antigua and Barbuda, Canada, El Salvador, Mexico and Peru as states that have ratified.