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.
Ambassador Sofía Leonor Sánchez Baret presented credentials today as the new Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic to the Organization of American States, expressing her readiness to help “make democracy permanent reality for our Hemisphere.”
She told OAS Secretary General César Gaviria she would continue President Hipólito Mejía’s three-year old policy that is “based on non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries and on cooperation with all organizations and all countries.”
The Ambassador renewed her government’s commitment to human rights and public liberties, noting that the Dominican Republic respects every citizen’s right to free expression.
Receiving the credentials, the Secretary General praised the new envoy’s professional experience, noting her contribution “will help the OAS carry out its historic mission while tackling new tasks and responsibilities as mandated by our heads of state and government.”
Gaviria underscored the need to collectively defend democracy, respect human rights, seek a more just Hemisphere, “and see to it that nations of the Americas work together to confront the many new challenges of this era of globalization.”
Sánchez Baret holds a law degree from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo as well as a Master’s degree in political science, and a postgraduate certificate in international relations from Pedro Henríquez Ureña University.
She twice served as a deputy in the Dominican Republic’s Congress—from 1972 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2002—and for two years served as vice president of Socialist International. Ambassador Sánchez Baret has also served as a delegate to the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) and is a member of the Dominican Revolutionary Party’s National Executive Committee as well as its Political Committee.