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.
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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.
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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.
OAS Secretary General Calls on Member States to Strengthen the Inter-American Human Rights System
October 3, 2016
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, today expressed his support for a proposal to double the budget of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
The Secretary General welcomed the September 30 communiqué from the Commission announcing that it had overcome the immediate and severe financial crisis which threatened to limit its capacity to comply with basic duties in 2016. At the same time, the Secretary General remains focused on the need to place both the Commission and the Court of Human Rights on a sound, long-term financial footing to allow both bodies to plan and execute their work in a predictable and sustainable manner.
In this context, in a letter also dated September 30, 2016, the Presidents of the Commission and the Court jointly wrote to the Secretary General proposing that the budgets of the two human rights bodies be doubled. The joint proposal seeks to provide medium and long-term sustainability and ensure that the Commission and the Court fulfill their mandates in an effective and timely manner by increasing contributions from OAS member states and relying less on contributions from permanent observers and other donors.
The Secretary General fully endorses the joint proposal, especially as it would allow the Court and the Commission to hold more sessions; would allow the Commissioners and the Judges more time to review, analyze and render judgements; would allow for the creation of a Special Rapporteur for Economic and Social Rights as well as the strengthening of the existing Rapporteurs; would help to ensure long-term stability for staff members of the Secretariats to both organs and would lead to an increase in the number of cases resolved by the Commission and the Court.
The Secretary General believes that the member states have a responsibility to ensure that the Inter-American Human Rights System is adequately funded to that it can fulfill its responsibilities under the OAS Charter, the American Convention on Human Rights, and other Inter-American human rights instruments, and hopes that member states will accept the proposal from the Commission and Court.