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.
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today approved a declaration in support of the French people and sent its condolences to the country and the families affected by the violent acts that took place in Paris last week, that led to the deaths of 17 people in the attack on the weekly “Charlie Hebdo” and the taking of hostages in a kosher supermarket.
The declaration of the Permanent Council, presented following a proposal by the Permanent Representative of Guatemala, José María Argueta, “vigorously and unreservedly condemns terrorism in any part of the world, in all its forms and manifestations.”
The document also welcomes the expressions of support and solidarity by governments around the world “to the people and Government of France for their rejection of violence and acts of terrorism perpetrated by radical groups.”
Moreover the Council calls in the declaration for the consolidation of peace, respect for life, tolerance and other fundamental rights and freedoms.
In their addresses, the representatives of the member states in the Permanent Council expressed on behalf of their governments their solidarity with the people and Government of France, and also condemned the recent attack against the civilian population in Nigeria.
The special meeting today was headed by the new Chair of the Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Suriname, Ambassador Niermala Badrising.
During the meeting, the delegations of Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Haiti, Paraguay, Dominica, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Mexico, the United States, Venezuela, Canada, Uruguay, El Salvador, Jamaica, Suriname, The Bahamas, Brazil, Honduras, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Panama all took the floor, as did the Permanent Observers from Spain, Italy and France.
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