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.
BOLIVIA ASKS OAS FOR COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE DEADLY VIOLENCE
February 26, 2003
The Bolivian government has asked the Organization of American States (OAS) for a commission to help with investigations underway to determine who was responsible for 32 deaths and the vandalism that took place in La Paz recently, that country’s Interim Representative to the OAS, Ricardo Martínez, said Wednesday.
Martínez said his government “has invited both the Chairman and the Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to send the commission as soon as the current IACHR session is concluded.”
The Bolivian diplomat expressed appreciation for the support his country has received in the wake of the February 12 and 13 incidents, saying that support “translated into Permanent Council Resolution 838 which once again underscored the spirit of solidarity from our countries of the Hemisphere.”
The resolution, approved February 14 after Bolivia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Carlos Saavedra addressed the Permanent Council, expressed “its full and decisive support for the constitutional Government of the President of the Republic of Bolivia, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, and for the democratic institutions,” and condemned the use of violence and other undemocratic acts that disrupt good governance and democracy in Bolivia.
In the resolution, the OAS Permanent Council also underscored “the firm resolve of the member states to apply the mechanisms provided in the Inter-American Democratic Charter for preserving democracy,” stressing as well that “the promotion and observance of economic, social, and cultural rights are inherently linked to integral development, equitable economic growth, and the consolidation of democracy in the states of the Hemisphere.”