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 ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL CALLS ON MEMBER STATES TO CONTINUE SUMMIT MOMENTUM
May 1, 2009
The Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Albert Ramdin, presented an overview of the Fifth Summit of the Americas at the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C., yesterday along with Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, Ambassador Thomas Shannon; the Permanent Representative from Trinidad and Tobago, Ambassador Glenda Morean-Philip; and Mexican Ambassador to the White House, Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan, at the event, entitled “The Summit of the Americas Process: Port of Spain and Beyond”.
During the conference, Ambassador Ramdin called on OAS member states to work with the international community to seize the momentum and commitment of the Summit in order to translate mandates into concrete actions. Ramdin expressed optimism that “a new chapter had begun for the Inter-American system in which 34 heads of state demonstrated a clear willingness to dialogue and to listen to each other,despite the diversity of the political and economic landscape in the Americas.”
Ramdin offered several practical proposals for improving the Summit process, including making the Summit of the Americas an institutional part of the OAS Secretariat, and transforming the OAS General Assembly into a Summit of the Americas every three years, with participation of all the Heads of State and Government. This, Ambassador Ramdin stressed, “would ensure a process of seamless translation of Summit mandates in the political agenda of the OAS. Equally, member states need to consider how they would want to structure the implementation process nationally”, stated Ramdin and recommended countries to consider establishing a “National Executive Secretariat” to coordinate and facilitate implementation, financing, monitoring, evaluation and reporting.
He also recommended “back-to-back” meetings between OAS Ministers of Foreign Affairs and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Ministers of Finance which would allow for a matching of political mandates with financial commitments.
Assistant Secretary General Ramdin concluded his remarks by affirming that “this new political environment in the Americas needs to be sustained” in order to strengthen the political impact of the various inter-American institutions.
Presenting a U.S perspective at the event was Assistant Secretary of State, Ambassador Shannon who stated that “the summit process is alive and well”. He also expressed that the recent Summit demonstrated that “the Caribbean has emerged as an important leader in the process, capable of managing both the substance of the agenda, as well as the logistics.”