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.
COSTA RICAN AMBASSADOR CALLS FOR A STRONG REGION FREE FROM IMPUNITY
March 30, 2005
The strengthening of the inter-American system “will continue to be a core objective of Costa Rica’s foreign policy efforts,” Costa Rican Ambassador Javier Sancho Bonilla , the new Permanent Representative of his country to the Organization of American States (OAS), said today. He also reiterated his government’s commitment to combat corruption and impunity in the hemisphere.
“I urge all the member states to universalize and deepen their commitment to the inter-American human rights system, whose goal is none other than to impede impunity and ensure our families protection from anything that could endanger their fundamental rights,” Sancho Bonilla said in his first speech to the OAS Permanent Council, chaired by Ambassador Manuel María Cáceres of Paraguay.
The Central American diplomat reiterated his government’s commitment to the multidimensional focus on hemispheric security, emphasizing Costa Rica’s full support of OAS efforts to confront such threats as drug trafficking, the trafficking of illegal arms, organized crime, corruption, and inequality and poverty.
Before being named to his new post, Ambassor Sancho Bonilla, a career diplomat, served as Director General of Foreign Policy in Costa Rica’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has also served as Ambassador to Brazil, Korea and Thailand, and been a delegate to a number of international conferences. He headed his country’s delegation to the Conference of National Coordinators of the Rio Group, held in Santiago, Chile, in March 2001.