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.
OAS SECRETARY GENERAL MEETS WITH MEMBERS OF U.S. HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE
June 22, 2005
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, met today with members of the U.S. House International Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere to exchange views on a range of issues affecting the countries of the region.
After the 90-minute meeting, the Chairman of the Subcommittee, Rep. Dan Burton (R-Indiana), told reporters that he and his colleagues wanted to ask questions and “get as much information as possible so that we can be a help to the OAS and the new Secretary General in dealing with the problems in Central and South America and the Caribbean.”
Insulza, who took office on May 26, noted that although the OAS is based in Washington, such meetings with members of the United States Congress have been rare. “The first agreement we have reached is that we will meet more often,” Insulza said.
Among other issues, Insulza briefed the members of Congress on his mission last week to Nicaragua and talked about the need to address poverty and inequality in many countries. Asked by reporters about the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA), Insulza noted that having free-trade agreements with the United States has proved beneficial for other countries in the hemisphere as well as for the United States.
“The biggest problem in our region today is poverty, and that is by necessity linked to economic growth and the creation of jobs in the countries,” the Secretary General said.
Burton stressed the importance that U.S. policy become more focused on the region. “One of the things that I think all of my colleagues, Democrat and Republican, agree is that there needs to be dialogue and openness with the Latin American, Central American and Caribbean countries,” he said.
Ten members of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere participated in the closed-door meeting, which was hosted by Burton and the ranking minority member, Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey).
The Secretary General was accompanied by Assistant Secretary General-elect Albert Ramdin, who takes office on July 19, as well as by Ambassador Alberto Borea of Peru, the current Chair of the OAS Permanent Council, and Ambassador Roberto Alvarez of the Dominican Republic, who will assume the three-month rotating chairmanship of the Council in July.
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