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.
PARAGUAY’S FOREIGN MINISTER RENEWS CALL FOR URGENT
ACTION ON HUNGER AND EXTREME POVERTY
October 6, 2004
New political mobilization must be a critical part of any effort to effectively fight hunger and extreme poverty in the Americas, Paraguay’s Foreign Minister Leila Rachid de Cowles reiterated today, as she addressed the Organization of American States.
The Paraguayan Minister cited a Declaration that heads of state adopted at a summit on fighting hunger and poverty, held in New York this past September 20, and emphasized the need to tackle poverty and social injustice around the world as indispensable to the security and stability of all countries—developed and developing alike.
In her address to the OAS Permanent Council, Rachid also restated the call for “more evenhandedness in globalization.” She told the member state ambassadors this is key to delivering a better standard of living for citizens, and that globalization must be based on “shared, universal values and respect for human rights and human dignity.”
The Foreign Minister also urged the OAS to be more creative, imaginative and innovative in its involvement in efforts to prevent and confront tragedies such as the hurricane devastation that struck a number of member countries recently, observing that the organization should engage a new set of dynamics in order to change the harsh realities facing the hemisphere’s people. This would give citizens hardest hit by these scourges reason to defend the OAS as an organization that indeed serves people.
The Permanent Council’s Chairman, Ambassador Arístides Royo of Panama, welcomed the Paraguayan dignitary, noting her outstanding contribution to her country and to international diplomacy. Permanent Representatives from several member states added their own welcome and praise, underscoring the minister’s distinguished leadership in the Southern Common Market, known as MERCOSUR.
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