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.
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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.
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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.
The Vatican State Opens Office Dedicated Exclusively to OAS Affairs
September 16, 2019
Photo: OAS
The new Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the Organization of American States (OAS), Monsignor Mark Gerard Miles, today presented his credentials to Secretary General Luis Almagro, in a ceremony that formalized the appointment by the Vatican State of an office dedicated exclusively to the affairs of the Organization.
“With this appointment, His Holiness has wanted this permanent mission to be even more constant and close to the OAS, being exclusively dedicated to the work of this illustrious Organization,” said Monsignor Miles. “In addition, in the context of the primary objectives of the OAS, which the Holy See shares, and from which it wants to offer its full contribution, this Mission wishes to learn from the experiences of this headquarters, as well as from the member states,” added Monsignor Miles when presenting the credential that accredit him to the hemispheric entity.
"The decision of His Holiness Pope Francis to have an office for the OAS is proof of the importance he places on the countries of the Americas, in general, and his proximity to this Organization, in particular," said Secretary General Almagro, who recalled that the OAS has carried out with Pope Francis the Interreligious Dialogue initiative “uniting the practitioners of the Catholic faith with the practitioners of Judaism and Islam in order to promote peace and tolerance in our common home, the earth." "We trust that with your permanent presence we can work together in the defense of the common values shared by the Vatican and the OAS," concluded the Secretary General.
The Vatican State has been a Permanent Observer of the OAS since 1978. With this decision the Vatican joins Spain, Italy and France as countries with ambassadors assigned exclusively to the OAS.
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