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 Organization of American States (OAS), through its Secretariat for Integral Development (SEDI), is implementing a three-year program to provide local artisans in the Caribbean better access to tourism markets by strengthening their business capabilities, improving the marketability of their products, streamlining distribution systems and creating replicable strategies that facilitate mutually beneficial trade relationships between local artisans and tourism businesses.
The program, “Supporting our Caribbean Enterprises” or SOURCE, began in 2008 in OAS member countries of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and currently is expected to be expanded to other countries of the hemisphere.
The program’s activities have focused on training artisans to create more market-ready products and improve the quality, presentation and packaging of their products; outreach and promotion to introduce products and initiate trading relationships with local artisans; and promoting regional handicraft producers and showcasing their work.
This initiative also has succeeded in increasing awareness of the creativity and value of the work of local artisans, an achievement that will be significantly enhanced through a new website, “Resortful Arts,” at www.resortfularts.org, that will help market and promote artisans’ products and contribute to sustaining local livelihoods and preserving traditional art forms and craftsmanship.
Funding for the project comes from the Special Multilateral Fund of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (FEMCIDI) of the OAS. The OAS FEMCIDI is a grant fund that seeks to reduce poverty and inequality through the financing of technical cooperation projects in the Americas.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org