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.
Statement of the OAS Secretary General on World Water Day
March 22, 2021
For more than half a century, the Organization of American States (OAS) has been promoting an agenda in which water is an element of development, cooperation and peace.
Today, in the face of the health emergency caused by COVID-19, it is clear that good water governance is central to guaranteeing the right to health, especially for the most vulnerable communities. Experience has allowed us to understand that the value of water transcends its economic dimension because it implies life, food security, health, recreation and development.
To this end, the Organization has promoted more than 160 projects and mobilized close to one billion dollars throughout the Americas and has also contributed to the creation of forums for dialogue in which countries decide politically and technically how to manage the water resources they share.
Regional progress is evident. Nearly 95 percent of people in Latin America and the Caribbean have access to sanitation services, although safe sanitation still lags behind, especially in rural areas where there are many challenges ahead.
Nearly 34 million people in the Americas do not have access to improved water sources for human consumption, which generates risks of disease and illness, especially among women.
On World Water Day, we want to remind the world that its value is immeasurable for the development, human rights, security and democracy agenda of the Americas.
To bet on its efficient and inclusive management is a task that the health emergency has brought back to its real dimension. Preparing the region for future epidemics and pandemics will require joint efforts to reduce the gaps in access to water and sanitation.
From the OAS General Secretariat, we will continue to promote an agenda in which water, as an invaluable resource, is a fundamental axis to guarantee more rights for more people.
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