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.
MEXICAN ENVOY URGES DEBATE ON STRONGER
DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE IN AMERICAS
April 7, 2004
Helping to set rules to govern globalization in the Americas is the best thing the Organization of American States could do to bolster democratic governance, according to the Mexican Permanent Representative to the OAS, Ambassador Miguel Ruiz-Cabañas.
Chairing the Permanent Council for the first time—since assuming the three-month rotating chair on April 1—Ambassador Ruiz-Cabañas outlined among his priorities consultations with member states and regional groups on a resolution calling for debate about promoting equitable economic development as well as strengthening democratic governance in the region.
Ambassador Ruiz-Cabanas said, “the challenge before the OAS right now is how to effectively address the growing demands from civil society, the mass media and political leaders, to help channel individual and collective efforts towards promoting equitable economic development, social development and democratic governance.” He said the hemisphere’s heads of state and government had devoted priority attention to these issues at the Special Summit of the Americas in Monterrey, Mexico, in January.
Turning to the Permanent Council’s preparations for the upcoming thirty fourth regular General Assembly session, to be held next June in Quito, Ecuador, the Chairman called on delegations and committee- and working group chairs to “do everything they can to ensure the success of this collective endeavor.”
Cabañas proposed to consult as well on a draft resolution focusing the need to restructure the OAS General Secretariat, against the backdrop of a new Secretary General being elected at the upcoming General Assembly.
The Mexican diplomat also pointed to an “institutional deficit” at the political level of the Organization, wherein as member states we are “demanding Herculean efforts but lack the full political will this calls requires.” He spoke about the Organization’s financial and administrative constraints, arguing, “Our countries either do not have additional resources or are not completely satisfied with the return on our investments.”
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