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.
SURINAME CONCLUDES MINE-CLEARING OPERATIONS, WITH OAS SUPPORT
April 22, 2005
After nearly three months working on the ground, the Organization of American States has now concluded its mine-clearing operations in Stolkersjiver, Suriname’s last known landmine-affected area. The operations, which began in the area last February and ran non-stop through late April, included destroying the deadly explosive devices.
The OAS demining project covered an area of more than 1,565 square meters, and involved a team of Honduran minesweepers working under a Brazilian supervisor. They trained and supervised a group of local soldiers to rid the area of the dangerous devices.
Along with Costa Rica (2002) and Honduras (2004), Suriname will become the hemisphere’s third country to declare “land mine-free” status, thanks to assistance from the OAS’ Comprehensive Mine Action Program (AICMA).
This also marks the second time the OAS has provided assistance to Suriname in this field. The first was in the early 1990s, involving peace accords that included mine-clearing operations coordinated by the OAS.
Landmines unearthed in Suriname were remnants of the country’s civil war of the 1980s. The U.S. and Canadian governments also provided assistance for Suriname’s de-mining program.
AICMA has been engaged in this field for 13 years and has assisted Central and South American countries in removing and destroying the explosive devices. This program receives funding support from 16 donor countries.
Suriname is a signatory to the Ottawa Convention, the international landmine treaty officially known as the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer or Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction.
In February last year Suriname destroyed its last remaining 146 landmines that had been stockpiled at the Bos Bivak military base.
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