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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.
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.
Secretary General Insulza: "García Márquez Raised Latin American Literature to Global Heights"
April 17, 2014
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today expressed his "deep sorrow over the death of Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian and Latin American author, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, primordial figure of the most prolific and brilliant generation of authors our continent has ever seen, who raised the literature of Latin America to global heights."
Insulza said "García Márquez transformed the real into magic and enthralled, with his masterful prose and the strength of his spirit, the imagination of men and women of different languages, races, creeds and ideologies. He brought a timeless style to the new Latin American literature and made it universal."
On the literary production of the Colombian author, Secretary General Insulza said: "His captivating stories, born of our reality, gave profound meaning to the everyday and conferred transcendent meaning to our Latin American identity. Their magical realism allowed millions to learn about the mystery and beauty of this contradictory, vast and exciting continent."
"The political struggle that marked the region for many decades was not absent from his work," he said, "and that made it even greater, because he defended the most just causes, identified with our democratic aspirations and showed himself a man who did not fear power."
The Secretary General sent his condolences "to the family of Gabriel García Márquez, the people and government of Colombia and all those in Latin America and the world who today mourn his departure."
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