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.
Panama's Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Miguel Alemán, speaking at the Organization of American States today, renewed his country's "faith in the inter-American system." He said Panama would continue actively supporting moves to help the hemispheric Organization better accomplish its mission.
In his presentation to a special session of the Permanent Council, the Minister explained Panama's perspectives on a wide range of issues, including the promotion of democracy in the Americas, combating terrorism, external indebtedness and hemispheric free trade. On the latter, he stressed the need for the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) to deliver "truly shared and equitable benefits" especially to the lesser developed among the nations of the Americas. "With the existing imbalances and limited capacity for the weaker economies to compete, equitable distribution of free trade benefits will be extremely difficult," he stated.
Foreign Minister Alemán touched on another issue he said was of pressing concern—"the pernicious effect of the high level of our countries' indebtedness." He said the annual debt service burden was diverting much-needed resources from the social needs. He urged the OAS to follow up on the consensus among the leaders at the recent Summit on Financing and Development in Monterrey, Mexico, and suggested that a hemispheric conference to coordinate strategies would seem "timely and important."
Alemán spoke as well about the upcoming thirty second session of the OAS General Assembly to be held in Barbados, noting the discussion that will engage the heads of delegation around the multidimensional approach to security. He said Panama had decided to adopt human security "as the basis of our security policy."
The Permanent Council's Chair, Ambassador Margarita Escobar of El Salvador, welcomed the Panamanian dignitary and thanked him on behalf of the member nations for his presentation.
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