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.
In the resolution on the “Right to Freedom of Thought and Expression and the Importance of the Media,” the General Assembly took note of the most recent report of the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and reaffirmed the importance of the right to freedom of expression.
The resolution on “Access to Public Information: Strengthening Democracy” marks the third time the General Assembly has passed a resolution on this issue. In the June 2003 meeting G.A. in Santiago, Chile, the Member States adopted a resolution in the area of public information asserting the duties of the States to respect and promote respect for access to public information. During the XXXIV General Assembly, held in June 2004 in Quito, Ecuador, a second resolution extended this effort by encouraging OAS Member States to implement legislation or other provisions providing citizens with broad access to public information and calling upon the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy (now the Office for the Promotion of Democracy) to provide support to the States in preparing such initiatives. In the most recent resolution on access to information adopted by the XXXV General Assembly, the G.A. reaffirmed what was resolved in the earlier resolutions and additionally called upon the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights “to conduct a study on how the State can guarantee all citizens the right to seek, receive, and impart public information on the basis of the principle of freedom of expression.” Moreover, the G.A. once again called upon the Permanent Council to convene a special meeting of experts on access to public information, with the assistance of the Office of the Special Rapporteur and the Office for the Promotion of Democracy.
The Special Rapporteur is deeply committed to carrying out this work and supporting Member States in the adoption of legislation in this area.
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