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.
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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 Government of the State of Hidalgo sign Cooperation Agreement
May 30, 2012
Photo: OAS
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Jose Miguel Insulza, and the Government of the Mexican State of Hidalgo, today signed a Cooperation Agreement whose objective is to establish bases for cooperation in the design and development of courses of action, programs, and projects aimed at the strengthening of public policies related to integral development.
“This agreement offers valuable opportunities for collaboration in initiatives such as economic development and competitiveness, social development, education, childhood and migration, among others,” said the Secretary General, also highlighting the progress already achieved in identifying concrete options for collaboration on specific issues covered by the agreement in which “both actors do their part to carry out programs of common interest, which is why a project like this one is so important for us, because of the exchange of experiences and complementarities of efforts to advance toward higher levels of prosperity."
The Governor of the State of Hidalgo, José Francisco Olvera Ruiz, thanked the OAS for its role in the agreement and emphasized that sharing “the knowledge of experience of the Organization of American States is fundamental for us.” The Governor added that his state hopes to not only to receive support of the hemispheric organization, but also to offers its “experience, knowledge, and quality.”
Also present at the signing ceremony were the Ambassador of Mexico to the OAS, Joel Antonio Hernández García; the President of the Permanent Council and Representative of Honduras, Ambassador Leónidas Rosa; several Mexican entrepreneurs and other OAS high level officials.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.