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.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Ellsworth John, today assumed the chairmanship of the OAS Permanent Council, proposing to intensify the focus on the Organization’s development agenda for the hemisphere’s nations.
During a brief handing-over ceremony, the Vincentian envoy received the gavel from Saint Lucia’s Ambassador, Sonia Johnny, outgoing Permanent Council Chair. Trinidad and Tobago’s Ambassador, Marina Valere, is the Vice Chair of the Permanent Council.
Describing the development agenda situation as urgent, Ambassador John stressed the need for more focus and emphasis in this direction. “We have to seriously think of where we want to go and how we want to successfully implement the development agenda that will cause long-term sustainable development in our region,” he said.
Ambassador John also noted among other pressing issues at hand the task of preparing for the upcoming General Assembly session scheduled to be held in the Dominican Republic in early June. He also commended the three-month stint of his predecessor in the rotating Permanent Council chairmanship.
For her part, the outgoing Council Chair pledged her continuing support to her successor, and reviewed her own period at the helm of the Organization’s second highest decision-making body, which is made up of the member states representatives. She noted developments such as the commitment by member states to increase their quotas so the OAS can be in a better financial position to implement mandates from the member states.
Among those on hand for the ceremony at OAS headquarters were Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin and several member state ambassadors, as well as a number of OAS General Secretariat officials.
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