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.
a. To advise the Permanent Council and its chair on matters that are within the area of competence of the Council and that, not having been assigned to other committees, have been assigned to the General Committee;
b. To consider the course and coordination of the work of the Council and its committees and to make recommendations thereon to the Council, its chair, and the committee chairs. For that purpose, it may establish a subcommittee on coordination composed of the committee chairs; the chair of the General Committee shall serve as chair of the Subcommittee on Coordination;
c. To examine periodically, by mandate of the Permanent Council, current working methods and procedures, so as to maximize efficiency and bring about the best possible use of time in the work of the Council;
d. To consider the reports presented by the organs, agencies, and entities referred to in Article 91.f of the OAS Charter, with the exception of those reports assigned to the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs under these Rules of Procedure; likewise, to submit their reports, with observations, recommendations, and accompanying draft resolutions, to the Permanent Council;
e. To consider other reports presented by the organs, agencies, and entities, as well as the reports presented by the units of the General Secretariat;
f. To prepare draft resolutions on the topics assigned to it by the Permanent Council or those not within the purview of other permanent committees; and
g. Such other functions as may be assigned by the Permanent Council.