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 and the White Helmets Initiative Extend their Alliance in Humanitarian Assistance in the Americas
The OAS today renewed its cooperation agreement with the White Helmets initiative of Argentina to strengthen the work of humanitarian assistance in the Americas.
Coordinated by the Argentine government, White Helmets is a body of volunteers that provides humanitarian assistance both inside and outside the country.
The Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, highlighted the recent rescue efforts of the group in natural disasters in the Caribbean and North America. “The volunteer work of the Argentine White Helmets is an example we hope to replicate in the hemispheric initiative on natural disaster risk management and thus generate a new system of disaster prevention and primary care in the Americas,” said Almagro.
For his part, the President of the White Helmets, Alejandro Daneri, emphasized the commitment of the group to the OAS, and called on other member states to join the initiative. “Argentina will soon make a disbursement of this fund to have movement and decisions on the issue under the guidelines of the Secretary General, and we extend the invitation to other States parties to support this initiative and increase our deployment.”
The White Helmets and the OAS have worked together since 1995.