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.
“A people that fails to take care of its past has no future,” declared the Bolivian diplomat during a brief ceremony with the OAS Assistant Secretary General, Ambassador Luigi Einaudi. He said Bolivia is among countries that have suffered most from ongoing theft of its historical and archeological artifacts, and underscored the importance of the San Salvador Convention which he said “will give us a very strong mechanism to preserve all of the wealth of our peoples.”
Ambassador Einaudi commended the Bolivian government for ratifying the treaty, saying “a country’s historical, archeological and human resources are among the greatest values of our democratic community.” For Bolivia, a country with a rich pre-Columbian history, he said this heritage is all the more important, and thus the Convention provides ratifying states a framework within which to “cooperate to prevent their national treasures from being plundered.”
Also referred to as the San Salvador Convention, the treaty was adopted in June 1976 in Washington. Besides Bolivia, it has been ratified by Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Peru, where it has entered into force.
The aim of the Convention is to identify, register, protect, and safeguard property that constitutes the cultural heritage of the nations of the Americas, in order to prevent them from being illegally exported or imported, and to foster cooperation among the nations for mutual awareness and appreciation of their cultural property.
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