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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.
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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.
New Permanent Representative of Ecuador Presented his Credentials to the OAS
January 13, 2014
The new Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Marco Albuja, today presented his credentials to the Secretary General of the hemispheric institution, José Miguel Insulza, during a ceremony at the headquarters of the Organization in Washington, DC.
During the presentation Ambassador Albuja pledged ”to help strengthen the Inter-American System," and work to ensure the Organization “occupies the position it should given its history.” "We believe," he added "that the OAS is a strong Organization, regardless of what the political opposition in a country say through the media, and we recognize it as the only political forum where we can discuss all the countries of the hemisphere."
The Ecuadorian diplomat said he will do his best to "show the people of America what is the true value and position of the OAS."
Secretary General Insulza praised the "enormous legal and political heritage” that the Ecuadorian diplomat can brings to the OAS "at a time when we need a major renovation of our work and our purpose." He recalled that last year the member states made a commitment that "this year the Organization would change," to open the debate on the Strategic Vision of the OAS, as proposed by the Secretary General.
"We are going to make what we have been talking about a reality in the sense that the activities of the Organization must be adapted to the realities of our time." He stressed that among these new realities the region shows "much greater democratic strength than any other time in its history, which has developed significantly in some countries in recent years."
He argued that the Organization he leads brings together, as laid out in its Democratic Charter, "all of the independent republics of the Americas." "We hope they are all here and all are represented and can discuss settling their differences through discussion and consensus, and therefore we want everyone here and I hope that this presence can strengthen this aspect," he concluded.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.
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