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.
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today underscored the need for enhancing governance in the region’s democracies by improving institutions that foster economic growth and help alleviate poverty and inequality.
Speaking at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America (AACCLA), at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, Insulza said that after a decade of economic reform, globalization and the return to democracy “Latin American and Caribbean countries acknowledge that it is imperative to ensure that these reforms result in concrete benefits for their peoples in terms of increased growth, job creation and reduction in poverty.”
The Secretary General noted that “the key political issue in the region today is an issue of democratic governance.” Underscoring recent political turmoil in several countries, he stressed the need to explore how democracies can be strengthened.
“We must be capable of providing effective and good governance and put an end to a situation in which our democracies and governments are transitory affairs,” he said. “These crises are harmful for investment, growth and stability, and they have caused Latin America to fall behind other regions of the world not afflicted with problems of this kind,” he added.
Insulza also said that the private sector must play a “vital” role in the process of delivering the benefits of democracy to the region, as it is “the main engine of growth for job creation and for improving the region’s prosperity.”
Secretary General Insulza presented, on behalf of the OAS Trust for the Americas, its 2005 Corporate of the Americas Award to ConocoPhillips for its “Empowering Guiria Fisherman to Become Entrepeneurs” program in Venezuela. The international energy company is the third-largest integrated energy company in the United States, based on market capitalization, oil and gas proved reserves and production, and the largest refiner in the country.
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