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.
OAS Secretary General Presented Report on the Drug Problem in the Americas at CARICOM Meeting
July 5, 2013
Photo: Office of the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, presented the Report on the Drug Problem in the Americas to the Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), held in Trinidad and Tobago.
The Secretary General presented the Report in the meeting, and also delivered a copy to the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who currently holds the Chair of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM. The Report was produced by the hemispheric Organization under Secretary General Insulza’s supervision, pursuant to a mandate from the Sixth Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia. The document is divided into two parts; the Analytical Report and the Scenarios Report.
Within the framework of the CARICOM meeting, which he has attended each year since assuming his position in 2005, Secretary General Insulza met with several Caribbean leaders, among them the Prime Ministers of The Bahamas, Perry Christie, and Saint Kitts and Nevis, Denzil Douglas.
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