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 Reviewed 2014 with Permanent Observers to the Organization
December 12, 2014
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The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today met with representatives of the Permanent Observers accredited to the institution, to review the main activities carried out during this year and to preview the hemispheric agenda for 2015.
During the meeting, Secretary General Insulza recalled the activities carried out by the OAS during 2014, among them the electoral observation missions, actions in support of the peace process in Colombia, and the expansion of the judicial facilitators program, in addition to the work of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission of Women, and other projects.
Secretary General Insulza, who was accompanied during the meeting by the Secretary for External Relations of the OAS, Alfonso Quiñonez, welcomed the support provided by the permanent observers in many areas, and noted that “you play a very important role as strategic partners, and we are very pleased with the support we have received from the permanent observers.”
The OAS created the status of permanent observer in 1972. Currently there are 69 observer countries, in addition to the European Union, that provide cooperation in terms of training, specialized services and equipment, as well as financing for various programs of the Organization.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.