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.
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today received the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Business of Grenada, Nickolas Steele, with whom he discussed issues related to the development of the Caribbean country and the political agenda of the hemispheric organization.
Secretary General Insulza and Foreign Minister Steele analyzed OAS programs related to integral development, multidimensional security and pubic administration that are of interest to Grenada and the CARICOM (Caribbean Community) region in general. The OAS leader described to the chief Grenadian diplomat the status of the report on the drug problem that the hemispheric organization is conducting under his leadership. The report is being compiled in accordance with the mandate that the heads of state and government of the hemisphere gave to the OAS during the Sixth Summit of the Americas in 2012.
The OAS Secretary General and the Foreign Minister of Grenada also discussed preparations for the General Assembly of the organization to be held in Guatemala from June 4 to 6; and for the Extraordinary General Assembly to be held tomorrow, Friday March 22 at the organization’s headquarters in Washington, DC, that will conclude the debate on strengthening the Inter-American System of Human Rights.
The meeting was attended by the Permanent Representative of Grenada to the OAS, Gillian Bristol; the Chief of Staff of the Secretary General of the OAS, Hugo de Zela; the OAS Executive Secretary for Integral Development, Sherry Tross; the OAS Secretary for Multidimensional Security, Adam Blackwell; and the OAS Director of the Department for Effective Public Management, Maria Fernanda Trigo.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.