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 Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, met with the Minister of Institutional Relations of the Brazilian Presidency, Jaques Wagner, to discuss issues related to decentralization and improving governance.
“The process of decentralization is critical for representative democracy, because it leads to greater citizen participation in the decisions that affect their lives,” Insulza said, thanking Minister Wagner for the efforts Brazil has carried out in this area.
The Brazilian diplomat conveyed to the Secretary General his country’s commitment to “democratization and the strengthening of governance in the hemisphere.”
Wagner holds the pro tempore chair of the Inter-American High-Level Network on Decentralization, Local Governance and Citizen Participation, known by its Spanish acronym RIAD. The network establishes links among local and regional governments, civil society groups, and other key players involved in the decentralization process. RIAD holds biannual ministerial meetings to exchange experiences and study policies geared at strengthening alliances between the public sector and civil society. The Department for the Promotion of Governance of the OAS Political Affairs Secretariat serves as the network’s technical secretariat.
Minister Wagner explained that one of the main objectives of the meeting with the Secretary General was to “establish a direct contact with the OAS and to implement a political strategic dialogue that will be able to provide input” to the work of the committee he heads.
Also during the meeting, the Secretary General and Ambassador Osmar Chohfi, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the OAS, signed a memorandum of understanding to hold the seventh meeting of negotiations in the quest for consensus, held by the working group charged with drafting the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
“It is increasingly necessary for the Brazilian government, in light of the complexity of a globalized world, to provide the indigenous American people all guarantees related to their rights, in general and specific terms, respecting the peculiarity of their cultures and traditions,” said Ambassador Chohfi.
The meeting, scheduled to take place in Brasilia from March 21 to 25, was mandated by a resolution of the OAS General Assembly adopted in June 2005, in which the region’s foreign ministers requested the Permanent Council to increase the pace of negotiations for a speedy adoption of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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