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.
65th OAS Policy Roundtable: "Regional Agenda for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Look into the Future"
February 21, 2015
The Organization of American States (OAS) will host, on Tuesday, February 24 at 15:00 EST (20:00 GMT) its 65th OAS Policy Roundtable, titled "Regional Agenda for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Look into the Future."
The event will feature a presentation by the Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza, followed by a panel moderated by the Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IACHR), Emilio Álvarez Icaza. The debate will include Nora Lustig, Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics at Tulane University; Laura Pautassi, Chair of the Working Group for the Evaluation of the Periodic Reports of the States Parties to the Protocol of San Salvador; Simone Cecchini, Social Affairs Officer in the Social Development Division, Economic Comission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) of the United Nations; and Paulo Vanucci, IACHR Commissioner.
The Roundtable seeks to evaluate the current situation of economic, social and cultural rights in the Americas, as well as generating a dialogue in which participants will analyze the implications of public policies and advances made in the implementation of the San Salvador Protocol, and its insertion into the discussion of the post-2015 development agenda.
The event will be broadcast live on the OAS Website.
WHAT: 65th OAS Policy Roundtable
WHEN: Tuesday, February 24, at 15:00 EST (20:00 GMT)
WHERE: Hall of the Americas, Organization of American States, 17th and Constitution Ave NW, Washington DC 20006