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.
Canada Assumes Chair of the OAS Permanent Council - October 4, 2017
The Permanent Representative of Canada to the Organization of American States (OAS), Jennifer May Loten, today assumed the Chair of the Permanent Council of the Organization, at a ceremony held at the hemispheric Organization's headquarters in Washington, DC.
Ambassador Loten appreciated the efforts of her predecessor, Ambassador José Luiz Machado e Costa of Brazil, and highlighted in particular his leadership and efforts to preserve the resources of the Organization. She also stressed the importance for Canada, and for her personally, of exercising this role during the next quarter.
“It is a great honor for Canada to take on this responsibility this year, our 150th anniversary. Also this is the beginning of Women’s History Month and personally for me as Canada´s first female Permanent Representative to the OAS it’s a tremendous honor to be bringing some gender balance to the Chairmanship of the Permanent Council," she said.
For his part, Ambassador Machado e Costa, outgoing Chair, thanked Member States and the OAS General Secretariat for the support received during his term and described his efforts during the last three months to make more efficient use of the resources of the Organization. "During my tenure as Chair we were able to practice austerity and broad consultation and transparency through the mechanism of working with the regional coordinators which was very useful in achieving our objectives."
The Permanent Council’s statutes establish that the chairmanship be exercised by each of the Permanent Representatives in turn, following the alphabetic order in Spanish of the names of their respective countries, and the office of Vice-Chair, by identical standards, following reverse alphabetical order. Canada will hold the presidency until December 2017. Guatemala will exercise the vice-chairmanship of the Council.
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