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.
Members of the Inter-American Juridical Committee Close Meeting in Peru
March 24, 2010
The 76th Regular Session of the Inter-American Juridical Committee (IJC), an advisory body on international legal matters of the Organization of American States (OAS), today held its closing session in the city of Lima, Peru.
During the 76th session, held March 15 to 24, 2010, members of the Committee discussed subjects related to the promotion and strengthening of democracy; access to justice in the Americas; freedom of thought and expression; the implementation of international humanitarian law in the Member States of the OAS, and the work of the International Criminal Court, among others.
Similarly, the Committee, presided by the former Colombian Foreign Minister Guillermo Fernández de Soto, approved two reports: a document that will be sent to the Working Group of the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs of the OAS that is currently negotiating a Proposal for an Inter-American Convention against Racism and all forms of Discrimination and Intolerance; and a report on the advisory capabilities of the Committee.
In the context of the meeting, members of the IJC held a series of talks with Peruvian government representatives, among them the Vice Minister of Foreign Relations of Peru, Ambassador Néstor Francisco Popolizio Bardales; the under-Secretary for Multilateral Affairs of the Peruvian Foreign Ministry, Luzmila Zanabria; the President of the Congressional Commission on Justice and Human Rights, Víctor Rolando Sousa Huanambal; the Attorney General, Gladys Margot Echaíz Ramos; and the President of the Constitutional Court, Juan Vergara Gotelli. Furthermore, academic meetings were held with authorities and students of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and the Universidad San Martín de Porres.
The next regular session of the Inter-American Juridical Committee will be held at its headquarters in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 2010, when the XXXVII International Law Course will also be held, an initiative organized annually jointly by the Committee and the OAS Department of International Law.
Integrated by 11 jurists from Bolivia, El Salvador, Venezuela, Jamaica, Mexico, Brazil, Nicaragua, Colombia, Canada, Peru, the United States and Dominican Republic, the objective of the IJC is to promote the progressive development and codification of international law, study the juridical problems pertaining to the integration of developing countries in the Western Hemisphere and promote the process of legislative uniformity among Member States.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.