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.
Official photo of the 41 General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS)
June 6, 2011
Photo: OAS
First row from left to right:
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of Paraguay, Jorge Lara Castro;
- the Permanent Representative of Nicaragua to the OAS, Ambassador Denis Moncada
- Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica, Kenneth Baugh
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of the President of the Republic of Haiti, Daniel Supplice
- The Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador, Hugo Martínez
- Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and International Cooperation of Guyana, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett
- Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Honduras, Mario Miguel Canahuati
- Secretary of External Relations of Mexico, Patricia Espinosa
- Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela
- Under Secretary for Multilateral Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Peru, Luzmila Sanabria.
Second row, from left to right
- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of The Bahamas, Theodore Brent Symonette
- Permanent Representative of Antigua and Barbuda to the OAS, Ambassador Deborah-Mae Lovell
- The Head of Delegation of Uruguay, Ambassador Milton Romani Gerner
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of Surinam, Winston Lackin
- Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the OAS, Ambassador La Celia A. Prince
- Deputy Minister and Coordinator General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Dominican Republic, José Manuel Trullols
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sam Condor
- Permanent Representative of Saint Lucia, Michael Louis
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago, Surujrattan Rambachan
- Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the OAS, Ambassador Roy Chaderton
- Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Religion of Argentina, Héctor Timerman
- Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados, Maxine O. McClean.
Third row, from left to right:
- United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, William Burns
- Permanent Representative of Dominica to the OAS, Ambassador Hubert John Charles
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, María Ángela Holguín
- Minister of State of Foreign Affairs for the Americas and Consular Affairs of Canada, Diane Ablonczy
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia, David Choquehuanca
- Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Belize, Wilfred Elrington
- Under Secretary General for Politics in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, Vera Lúcia Barrouin Crivano
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Alfredo Moreno
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica, René Castro Salazar
- Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the OAS, Ambassador María Isabel Salvador
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of Grenada, Karl Hood.