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.
OAS FORUM SPOTLIGHTS STRATEGIES TO TRADE DEBT FOR DEVELOPMENT
March 21, 2003
The Organization of American States (OAS) has proposed that National Endowments for Social Action (NESA) be established as a financial and operational strategy to implement mandates to increase grant assistance and reduce or re-channel debt into social action programs. The mandates stem from the Monterrey Summit on Development Financing, held in Mexico City last year.
The endowment proposal was the focus of a March 18 special consultative conference with the private sector and civil society, sponsored jointly by the OAS Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development (IACD) and The George Washington University’s Center for Latin American Issues. The roundtable discussion, under the theme of “Trading Debt for Development: National Endowments for Social Action,” was held at OAS Headquarters in Washington, where participants considered as well a possible regional endowment for social action among a range of initiatives and issues surrounding debt reduction, social development and poverty alleviation.
One of the objectives of this conference was “to consider the option of a National Endowment, similar to the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy but focused on social action goals, as a reasonable approach toward this goal," explained IACD Director General, L. Ron Scheman, who moderated a panel that considered “Contributing Debt for Social Action: How Can We Do It?”
Stressing that the core issue considered by the conference was to identify “a viable mechanism that would have credibility with donors, both from the public and private sectors, for re-channeling debt to accomplish the goals outlined by the International Conference on Financing for Development, in Monterrey,” Mr. Scheman recalled that “The Presidents at that conference asked the public and private sectors and civil society to get together to form national consensus to combat poverty.”
The roundtable at the OAS discussed other topics including “Governance Issues: How best to organize private sector, public sector and civil society participation;” and “Delivering Quality Social Action Programs: How to ensure effective government-civil society collaboration.”
Mexico’s Ambassador to the OAS, Miguel Ruiz-Cabañas, delivered the opening remarks at the forum, after the welcome by Dr. James Ferrer, Director of the Center for Latin American Issues. The meeting brought together other experts and officials, including Eric Farnsworth, Council of the Americas Vice President for Washington Operations; Inés Bustillo, Director of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); Ann Nicocelli, Executive Director of the Association of American Chambers of Commerce; and Daniel Erikson, Inter-American Dialogue’s Caribbean Programs Director.