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 Association of Public Defenders of the Americas
March 17, 2015
Photo: OAS
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, met today with members of the Board of the Inter-American Association of Public Defenders (AIDEF), who are participating in the 154th Period of Sessions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) at the headquarters of the Organization in Washington, DC.
During the meeting, Secretary General Insulza and the public defenders discussed the role of the OAS in supporting access to justice for the citizens of the region, and highlighted the important role of the Inter-American system in human rights.
The AIDEF representatives were headed by their General Coordinator, Noyme Yore, Defender General of the Ministry for Public Defense of Paraguay. Also present at the meeting were the Deputy Coordinator of the AIDEF and National Defender of Chile, Andrés Mahnke, the Coordinator for the Caribbean and National Director of the National Office of Public Defense of the Dominican Republic, Laura Hernández Román, and Juan de Díos Moscoso, from the General Defender´s Office of Argentina.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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