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.
NEGOTIATORS URGED TO CONCLUDE HEMISPHERIC
DECLARATION ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ RIGHTS AS PRIORITY
February 10, 2005
Concrete concerns must now be formulated so priority can be given to concluding the Draft American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Organization of American States (OAS) Acting Secretary General Luigi R. Einaudi has asserted. He said the process must be concluded as a matter of priority because “vexing situations continue to afflict more and more people, some of whom experience incredible suffering.”
Einaudi expressed his views while addressing member state and indigenous peoples’ representatives at the start of the two-day fourth special meeting of the Organization’s Working Group to Prepare the Draft American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This meeting follows a three-day meeting that ended Wednesday, in which delegates continued negotiations seeking consensus on the Draft Declaration.
“I believe it is now time for everyone to redouble efforts to conclude this process,” said Einaudi, referring to the initiative started several years ago to draft a hemispheric declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, under the aegis of the OAS.
Another contribution to the opening session was made by Celeste McKay, of the Native Women’s Association of Canada. Speaking on behalf of the Indigenous Caucus, she argued that neither indigenous peoples nor the governments can, nor should, “negotiate” human rights, as “human rights are inherent and inalienable.”
Furthermore, McKay stressed in response to calls for expedited conclusion of the Draft Declaration, “Indigenous peoples will not sacrifice the content of the declaration for speed in its approval.”
Among other matters, the Working Group will review the status of progress and will assess the level of consensus reached on the draft Declaration and discuss preparations for the Second Summit of the Americas on Indigenous Peoples, and will consider a possible date for the conclusion of the final phase of negotiations for adoption of the Draft Declaration.
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