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.
SEARCHING FOR CONSENSUS ON THE
AMERICAN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
February 8, 2005
The President of the Permanent Council of the Organization of Americas States (OAS), Ambassador Manuel María Cáceres of Paraguay, said he hoped talks this week—undertaken in a positive and conciliatory spirit—would lead to concrete progress on issues related to economic, social and property rights in the draft American Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Yesterday, at the inauguration of the fifth meeting of negotiations to find consensus on individual articles of this juridical instrument, Ambassador Cáceres noted that “this process of negotiation that we return to today requires time so that all the participants can present and defend their interests and arrive at a consensus.” However, he said that “on occasions, it is necessary to make concessions, so that through a constructive and conciliatory process the objectives and goals of everyone can be attained.”
The Paraguayan ambassador noted that within their discussion the meeting’s participants would find points of agreement and through a transparent and participatory process would achieve the desired Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Speaking on behalf of indigenous representatives, Jorge Fredick of Nicaragua noted that not withstanding the advances achieved in the struggles to regain their rights, “indigenous peoples continue to be gravely threatened by the imposition of supposed development projects and the creation of conservation areas in indigenous territories, against their will, which constitute systematic genocide and ethnocide, causing loss of life, identity and the means to sustain our peoples.”
The meeting, which will continue until Friday, is presided over by the Alternate Representative of Guatemala, Ambassador Juan Leon, who also chairs the working group of the Permanent Council charged with the elaboration of the draft Declaration. In that same opening session, the Guatemalan Ambassador assured the participants that the objective of the declaration is a “search for the full realization of millions of human beings that they are not marginalized by political, economic, social, cultural, educational, and judicial development.”
The American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was mandated by the OAS General Assembly in 1999, the same year in which the Working Group was established, and since then has realized a series of meetings under the umbrella of the Permanent Council.
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