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.
PERU’S ENVOY ASSUMES CHAIR OF OAS PERMANENT COUNCIL,
TOUTING UNIQUENESS OF THE HEMISPHERIC UNITY
April 1, 2005
In assuming the leadership of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Friday, Peru’s Ambassador, Alberto Borea , touted the relevance of the hemispheric organization as a forum that unites nations as equals despite their geographic, economic and other differences.
“This should in no way be interpreted to mean that a concern relating to our shared values—which we have pledged to uphold and defend—is a lack of respect or undue interference. It is instead an expression of good and creative neighborliness,” Borea explained as he accepted from his predecessor, Paraguay’s Ambassador Manuel María Cáceres, the gavel symbolizing the authority of the Council Chair. Borea pledged to use his three months in the rotating Council chair to do his utmost to help further strengthen the unity of the Americas.
Argentina’s Ambassador Rodolfo Gil assumed the Vice Chairmanship, succeeding Ambassador Joshua Sears of The Bahamas, during the ceremony that was attended by several other member state ambassadors and senior OAS officials.
Among other notable matters during his term as Council Chair, Borea will coordinate preparations for the April 7 election of a new OAS Secretary General as well as preparations for the 35th regular session of the Organization’s General Assembly , to be held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, early June.
Remarking on his own stint at the helm of the Permanent Council, the outgoing Chairman highlighted the intense work of the past three months, surrounding the inter-American agenda, dealing with issues aimed at improving the quality of life for the citizens of the member states. Cáceres also thanked the delegations and the OAS Secretariat for their collaboration, making special mention of the leadership demonstrated by Ambassador Luigi Einaudi as Acting Secretary General for the past several months.