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 government of Panama has signed an agreement that officially confirms it will host the next General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS). The thirty-seventh regular session will bring together the hemisphere’s foreign ministers in Panama City from June 3 to 5, under the theme of “Energy for Development.”
Panama’s Permanent Representative to the OAS, Ambassador Aristides Royo, signed the agreement along with Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, during a ceremony at OAS headquarters Monday. They also signed agreements for two other conferences to be held in Panama: the First Meeting of the Committee of the Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities, slated for February 28 to March 1; and the Fifth Meeting of National Points of Contacts and the Seventh Session of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE), from February 28 to March 2.
Citing a series of important conventions and declarations that will be presented for the consideration of the General Assembly, Ambassador Royo underscored the need for proactive follow-up to implement them. “These declarations, which are of such great historic value to the Americas, will have served no purpose if there is no implementation afterwards, or if member states do not agree on follow-up to put into practice the principles they articulate,” he said.
He said it was important to evaluate not just the meeting itself, “but what will be done on the basis of what emerges from Panama City.” In this regard, Royo stressed his country’s interest in deepening the process of integrating the peoples of the Americas. “Our greatest desire is for this integration, this cooperation, solidarity and brotherhood uniting our peoples and the states of the hemisphere to be reflected in the attitude of our member states,” he explained. Concerning the meeting on disabilities, the Panamanian diplomat noted that this is a key issue in which the country’s First Lady has taken an especially deep interest.
Secretary General Insulza thanked the Panamanian government for offering to host the OAS meetings. Referring to the General Assembly, he said the Organization plans to submit concrete proposals that can serve as a basis on which the countries can coordinate energy policies and devise strategies for the future.
Insulza also made mention of the initiative to widen the Panama Canal, noting that this is a vital issue to the OAS given the value of that inter-oceanic waterway to the Americas. The Secretary General said the countries on the hemisphere’s Pacific coast “are particularly heavy users of the Canal and thus its expansion it is no small matter for us.”