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.
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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 SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TO LOOK AT SUSTAINABLE TRADE IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
November 29, 2004
The Organization of American States (OAS) has signed an agreement with the Business Development Company Limited of the government of Trinidad and Tobago (BDC), to develop a national environmental assessment of free trade. The agreement was signed last Friday at the BDC Head Office in Port of Spain, by the OAS Director in Trinidad, Joseph Clement Campbell, and by the President of the BDC, Earle Baccus.
The assessment will be developed in partnership by the OAS Office for Sustainable Development and Environment (OSDE) and the BDC. Together, OSDE and BDC will focus on the extent to which domestic markets are likely to change, determining which sectors may grow as trade barriers fall and looking as well at environmental consequences that can be anticipated from these economically driven effects. The assessment will also examine how legal and institutional frameworks, both domestic and regional, can address these changes.
The information resulting from this initiative is expected to be useful in terms of private sector development and sustainable approaches to competitiveness. The new partnership is intended to provide the government of Trinidad and Tobago with capacity building and a more realistic set of policy options that make trade expansion more sustainable.
This initiative, developed in response to mandates from the Summit of the Americas process, is part of a broader program executed by the OAS Office for Sustainable Development and Environment with the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The OAS has been working through this program with member states in Central America, the Andean Region and the Southern Cone. This agreement is the first step towards expansion of the program to the Caribbean..