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.
Foreign Ministers of the Americas Concluded Preparations for the Summit of Panama
April 9, 2015
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The Foreign Ministers of the States of the Americas concluded today the preparations for the Summit of the Heads of State and Government, to be held on Friday and Saturday in Panama, with an agreement to send to the appropriate institutions the mandates that emerge from the hemispheric meeting.
Following the proposal by the Panamanian presidency, the Foreign Ministers of the region decided to deliver the "Mandates for Action" to the institutions of the Inter-American system, headed by the Organization of American States (OAS), and the Joint Summits Working Group, to manage the implementation of the agreements reached in education, health, migration, energy, security, environment, participation and democracy, all in support of the objective of the Summit: achieving prosperity with equality.
The final meeting of the Summits Implementation and Review Group before the beginning tomorrow of the hemispheric meeting was presided over by the Vice President and Foreign Minister of Panama, Isabel de Saint Malo, and included the presence of the Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.