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.
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay. Attorney and Doctor of Laws and Social Sciences (Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay). Professor of Public International Law at the Universidad de la República and the Universidad Católica (Uruguay). Has lectured, among others, at the Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), the OAS Course on International Law, the University of Paris II (France), Georgetown University (Washington DC), and the Hague Academy of International Law (published in volume 355 of the Collected Courses).
He is member of the “Institut de Droit International”, vice president of the Latin-American Society of International Law, member of the “Instituto Hispano-Luso Americano de Derecho Internacional”, of the “Société Francaise de Droit International”, of the “American Society of International Law” and of the “Academia Nacional de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales de Argentina”. He was a founding member of the “Instituto Ibero-Latinoamericano de Derecho del Consumidor” and member of the editorial board of the “Journal of Consumer Policy”. He is member of the Editorial Board of the “Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional”.
Author of books and articles on international law, consumer law and Inter-American law, published in journals in the Americas and Europe. Among others, he collaborated in the treaty on Public International Law under the direction of Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga. Published an article on the reforms to the OAS Charter in the “Annuaire Francais de Droit International”, a book on the OAS published in Brazil (ed. Manole, Sao Paulo, 2003) and another in México (ed.Porrúa, 2015) and the articles on the inter-american system of the “Encyclopedia of Public International Law” (Max Planck Institute and Oxford University Press) and “The Oxford Handbook of the use of force in international law”.
Former Director of Consumer Defense and former National Director of Commerce and Suppliers in Uruguay (1985 - 1990), legal adviser to the International Organization of Consumers Unions (de 1990 - 1993) and legal adviser (though competition) to the General Secretariat of the OAS (1993 - 1996). From 1996 to 2005, he was the Director of the Department of International Law of the General Secretariat of the OAS. Since 2005, he was then Director of the Department of International Legal Affairs until his appointment as Secretary for Legal Affairs.
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