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 Meets with the Deputy Defense Minister of Colombia
November 1, 2013
Photo: OAS
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, met today with the Deputy Defense Minister of the Republic of Colombia, Jorge Enrique Bedoya, with whom he discussed the preparations and themes of the Fourth Meeting of Ministers of Public Security in the Americas (MISPVA IV), to be held on November 21 and 22 in Medellin, Colombia, and other issues of security and defense in the Hemisphere.
During the meeting, Deputy Minister Bedoya reported on the progress in the preparations for the high-level meeting, which aims to "strengthen the bonds of cooperation, coordination and mutual assistance between the institutions responsible for public security of member states in order to reduce violence and organized crime, and to contribute to the maintenance of peace and security of the Hemisphere." in this regard, Secretary General Insulza recalled the importance of this meeting, which was created during the time of his tenure in the OAS, and confirmed his presence at the opening ceremony in Medellin.
The two authorities shared ideas and perceptions about other issues, among them the importance and leading role of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE); the contributions and leadership of AMERIPOL; the challenges and options for increasing the work and sources of financing for the humanitarian demining program lead by the OAS in several countries of the region; and the linkage of the OAS with the Inter-American Defense Board (IADB), in accordance with the provisions of the Declaration on Security of the Americas.
The meeting was also attended by the Permanent Representative of Colombia to the OAS, Ambassador Andrés González and the Minister Counselor Germán Espejo, in charge of security and defense issues in the Colombian consulate in Washington, DC.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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