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.
Secretary General Insulza Meets with the President of the United Nations General Assembly
November 12, 2014
Photo: OAS
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, met today with the President of the United Nations General Assembly Sam Kahamba Kutesa, in the framework of the visit the leader of the hemispheric Organization made to the UN to introduce the content and results of the recent OAS Assembly of Guatemala focused on the issue of drugs.
In the meeting with Kutesa who represents Uganda at the main deliberative organ of the UN, Secretary General Insulza, together with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala Carlos Morales officially delivered the resolution adopted by the XLVI Special General Assembly entitled "Reflections and Guidelines to Formulate and Follow Up on Comprehensive Policies to Address the World Drug Problem in the Americas" and the Declaration of Antigua, Guatemala. As part of the meeting, the authorities also talked about the process of debate that led to the adoption of the documents, the leadership role of the hemisphere in the subject and the different perspectives of how to deal with this scourge.
Prior to meeting with the leader of the UN General Assembly, Secretary General Insulza and Foreign Minister Morales met with the Permanent Representatives of the member countries of the Group of Latin America and the Caribbean in the framework of the UN (GRULAC) who also received the documents from the OAS high-level meetings and received a brief overview of the report "the Drug Problem in the Americas," prepared by the OAS.
The meeting also served to review the steps to be taken with a view to the Special Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem to be held in 2016.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.