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.
Towards the Summit of the Americas, Experts at OAS Debate Hemispheric Cooperation to Advance Public Security
February 6, 2012
The Organization of American States (OAS) will host on Wednesday, February 8, at 15:00 EST (20:00 GMT), a round table with experts on Hemispheric Cooperation to debate the issue of Public Security, one of the main themes for the upcoming Summit of the Americas, to be held April in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
The 40th OAS Policy Roundtable will open with the participation of the Secretary General of the Hemispheric institution, José Miguel Insulza. The panel of experts include Anthony T. Bryan, Senior Fellow at the Institute of International Relations of the University of West Indies-St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago; María Victoria Llorente, Executive Director of “Fundación Ideas Para la Paz” (Colombia); and Rubén Aguilar, journalist and Press Secretary for former Mexican President Vicente Fox. The debate will be moderated by Richard Feinberg, Professor of International Political Economy, University of California-San Diego, and will conclude with remarks by Ambassador Luis Alfonso Hoyos, Permanent Representative of Colombia to the OAS.
The event will be broadcast live on the OAS Website here:
WHAT: 40th OAS Policy Roundtable. “The Road to Cartagena: Hemispheric Cooperation to Advance Public Security”
WHEN: Wednesday, February 8, 2012. 15:00 EST (20:00 GMT)
WHERE: Hall of the Americas, OAS Main Building
Organization of American States
17th Street & Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20006