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.
The Organization of American States (OAS) today hosted the Inter-American Forum on Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, which featured presentations and discussions by prominent indigenous representatives and national authorities regarding the next steps in the implementation of the rights of indigenous peoples.
In his welcoming remarks, the Assistant Secretary General of the OAS, Nestor Mendez, emphasized that “the OAS has repeatedly expressed its commitment to the inclusion of, respect for the human rights of, and attention to the needs of this group in a situation of vulnerability.”
For her part, the Chair of the OAS Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the OAS, Rita Hernandez, said “what this Forum seeks is to recognize and value the role of indigenous women and to recognize their rights, while also recognizing that this applies for all the women of the hemisphere.”
The event featured presentations on the implementation of the Plan of Action of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, and the Rights of Indigenous Women.
Participants in the forum included Armstrong Wiggins, Director of the Indian Law Resource Center, Washington, D.C (USA); Brooklyn Rivera, Foundation for the Promotion of Indigenous Knowledge (Nicaragua); José Víctor Estrada Torres, Technical Chief, Department of Intercultural Education, Ministry of Public Education (Costa Rica); Carmen Moreno, Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission of Women; and Rosa Iveth Montezuma, Miss Panama 2018, the first woman of Indigenous origin to win the pageant in Panama.
The Forum is the final event in the OAS’ celebration of the First Inter-American Week for Indigenous Peoples, which included a visit by a delegation comprised of Permanent Representatives to the OAS, Permanent Observer States, representatives of indigenous communities and senior staff at the General Secretariat to the National Museum of the American Indian to raise awareness of the history and reality of the indigenous peoples of the region.
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