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 Assists the Government of Barbados to Establish a Public Security Observatory
June 13, 2012
The Organization of American States (OAS) and the government of Barbados today signed an agreement for the implementation of a project to improve information on crime and violence, providing computer equipment and software as well as logistical and methodological support for the government in order to set up a Public Security Observatory.
The signing ceremony was attended in Bridgetown by the Attorney General and Minister of Home Affairs of Barbados, Adriel Brathwaite, and the OAS Country Representative, Francis A. McBarnette, who said, on behalf of the OAS General Secretariat, that "these efforts, among other things, are aimed at building institutional capacity to deal with security threats, strengthening security legislation, assisting in law enforcement coordination, sharing successful experiences and best practices, reducing the flow of illegal firearms and informing and promoting public policies that discourage crime and violence."
The OAS representative added, "we in the OAS believe that the establishment of this Observatory is critical in the fight against crime and violence. All government agencies collect data and information but it is often not brought to a central location and methods and methodologies differ. The Observatories will allow the authorities to have a better sense of what is happening on a national scale and thus enhance their capacity to track trends and to understand the dynamics of what is occurring."
The Observatory, to be housed in the National Task Force on Crime Prevention, which reports to the Office of the Attorney General, has been made possible through financial support from the "Anti-Crime Capacity Building Program" of the government of Canada. The High Commissioner of Canada to Barbados, Ruth Archibald, took part in the ceremony and affirmed the support of her government for this initiative.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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