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.
OAS Organizes Hemispheric Meeting in Colombia of National Authorities on Access to Justice
December 9, 2014
The Organization of American States (OAS) will organize, on December 10 and 11, in Cartagena, Colombia, a Technical Meeting of the Justice Ministries of the Americas on Legal Cooperation in Access to Justice, with the purpose of exchanging information and experiences on access to justice and formulating recommendations to strengthen hemispheric legal cooperation in that area.
The meeting, to be held at the Training Center of the Spanish Cooperation Agency (AECID), is being organized under the aegis of the Inter-American cooperation process known as the Meetings of Ministers of Justice or Other Ministers or Attorneys General of the Americas (REMJA). Participants will include authorities responsible for leading access to justice policies in OAS member states and representatives of OAS agencies and other international organizations, civil society organizations, the private sector, and academics focused on the issue.
During the event, participants will exchange information on recent legal developments in the field in the Americas, dealing with such issues as alternative methods for resolving disputes, and institutions for bringing justice closer to the public, such as integrated centers for justice and legal assistance. Guests will make presentations on innovative programs and successful experiences with using new technologies to facilitate access to justice, such as connectivity tools for communications between parties and conflict resolution, on-line legal services, videoconference hearings, electronic notifications, and case electronic files.
WHAT: Technical Meeting of the Justice Ministries of the Americas on Legal Cooperation in Access to Justice
WHEN: December 10 and 11, 2014
WHERE: Training Center of the Spanish Cooperation Agency (AECID), Cartagena, Colombia