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.
MEETING MOVES DECLARATION ON RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES FORWARD
February 28, 2003
Representatives of the Hemisphere’s indigenous peoples and Organization of American States (OAS) member state representatives concluded a four-day meeting in Washington, optimistic that the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples currently being drafted will be a boon to the inter-American human rights system. The delegates said the Declaration will also provide a framework for political dialogue and governance.
The OAS Working Group wrapped up its deliberations on Thursday, with delegates agreeing that substantive progress was made, including on the recognition of indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination, with renewed vision.
Peru’s Ambassador to the OAS Eduardo Ferrero Costa, the Working Group’s Chairman, thanked the delegates representing the indigenous groups for their participation in what he described as a “frank, open, constructive and respectful dialogue” that produced specific proposals on how to approach issues around which there is consensus as well as areas of difference.
Ambassador Ferrero Costa announced that the Chair had prepared an informal document to take the negotiations to the next stage. “It does not commit anyone but takes into account the contributions made at various meetings,” said Ferrero Costa, agreeing that national consultations should be promoted—between governments and their respective indigenous peoples, concerning the future of the Draft Declaration.
OAS Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi, speaking at the closing session, applauded the spirit of dialogue that prevailed, and urged the representatives of the indigenous peoples and member state representatives to “work out more possible mutual strategies in this process that must be participatory.”
Einaudi called for new state policies to bring education, the public service and the administration of justice in tune with the reality facing indigenous peoples themselves. He also underscored the need to recognize that political democracy must reflect, or perhaps mirror directly, the social composition of our peoples and that the absence of multicultural and multi-ethnic elements adversely affects the countries’ political and legal systems.”
Osvaldo Kreimer, the Working Group’s Rapporteur, highlighted the achievements arising from the meeting and identified a series of issues on which there was consensus, including widespread acceptance of cultural diversity in the member countries as a basis of their identity and richness. He also touched on the concept of “indigenous habitat” for the survival of indigenous peoples as an expression of their culture and to foster sustainable environment and application of their jurisdiction and institutions.