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.
COSTA RICA ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY OF FORMER PRESIDENT
MIGUEL ANGEL RODRIGUEZ FOR OAS SECRETARY GENERAL
July 17, 2003
Costa Rica on Wednesday formally announced to the Organization of American States (OAS)Permanent Council that former President Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría is its candidate for the post of OAS Secretary General.
Ambassador Walter Niehaus, the Costa Rican Permanent Representative to the OAS, asked the Hemisphere’s governments to support the Costa Rican candidate’s bid to succeed current OAS Secretary General César Gaviria ex-president of Colombia, whose term ends next year. Ambassador Niehaus hailed Rodríguez Echeverría as “an outstanding Costa Rican citizen” and a noted Central American with a broad hemispheric vision and solid experience as a lawyer, economist and academic.
The Costa Rican Ambassador pointed to Rodríguez Echeverría’s political career highlights that include serving as Minister of Planning and Economic Policy, as a Deputy and as President of the Chamber of the Legislative Assembly prior to being President from 1998 to 2002.
As President of Costa Rica, Rodriguez Echeverría “actively supported the adoption of the Inter-American Democratic Charter,” Ambassador Niehaus recalled, noting how he put the Charter into practice “to ensure constitutionally-elected governments are respected.”
He recalled as well that during the Rio Group’s Summit in San José in April 2002, then President Rodríguez Echeverría had called for the Inter-American Democratic Charter to be invoked “to ensure respect for Venezuela’s constitutionally-elected President Hugo Chávez Frías, amid an attempted military coup.”
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría is currently a visiting professor at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, D.C.
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