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.
PRESIDENT OF PANAMA ANNOUNCES POSSIBLE REFERENDUM ON CANAL
April 29, 2005
President Martín Torrijos addressed the Organization of American States’ (OAS) Permanent Council in Washington today, revealing that his government is considering a possible referendum on the future of the Panama Canal, including expanding the inter-ocean waterway.
President Torrijos urged member states to help Panama’s quest “to keep this important world trade waterway permanently neutral,” and he told the ambassadors about studies being conducted on modernizing the waterway.
He thanked the hemisphere’s citizens and governments for their OAS-backed support for efforts to negotiate agreements that culminated in the Canal’s return to Panamanian sovereignty in December 1999, paying tribute as well to a key negotiator of the Torrijos-Carter Treaty, Sol Linowitz, who died recently. The treaty was signed at OAS headquarters by Omar Torrijos the current president’s father who was at the time Panamana’s President, along with then US President Jimmy Carter.
In his remarks at today’s Permanent Council meeting that was chaired by Ambassador of Argentina Rodolfo Gil, President Torrijos called for comprehensive efforts to reduce poverty in the hemisphere, and expressed the collective wish of the leaders of OAS countries for the speedy adoption of the Social Charter and Action Plan that he called “two major initiatives to promote development while reducing poverty.”
OAS Acting Secretary General Luigi Einaudi’s remarks, read by Executive Secretary for Integral Development Brian Stevenson, underscored the hemispheric premium placed on dialogue to achieve consensus. “OAS multilateral or bilateral efforts to support processes of participation and transparency have strengthened our hemisphere,” he observed—in reference to the successful Panama Canal Treaty negotiation process.
Ambassador Rodolfo Gil welcomed President Torrijos, and after the Panamanian leader’s address, thanked him on behalf of all the Permanent Council’s members. The visit marked Torrijos’ first time at the OAS since assuming the presidency last September.
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