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.
CHILE ASSUMES CHAIRMANSHIP OF OAS PERMANENT COUNCIL
July 7, 2009
The Permanent representative of Chile to the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Pedro Oyarce, assumed Tuesday the Chairmanship of the Permanent Council and committed himself to work during the following three months to strengthen regional multilateralism
The Chilean diplomat received the mallet from his predecessor, Ambassador Graeme Clark of Canada, and affirmed that during his tenure he will look to foster a greater dialogue between the governments of the Member States, the OAS authorities and the General Secretariat. “I believe that a legitimate and effective multilateralism entails daily support from what I call the capacity of initiative of the multilateral system” he said.
While assuming the high-level office, which he will hold during the next three months as Chair of the Permanent Council, Ambassador Oyarce stressed the work done by his predecessor, Ambassador Clark, and his qualities, such as his “sense of responsibility, evident in all his professional performance; his intuition and acute political judgment and his firm concern for efficacy.”
Referring to the challenges he will be facing during his term, the Chilean Ambassador reaffirmed his country’s commitment with multilateralism and with the Organization, and stated that his task “is to represent, to channel, and to find political consensus among the members of the main permanent political body of the hemisphere”. He added that “in these days it becomes even more important to achieve that convergence, to help the Organization achieve the political relevance that we all hope for”.
The ceremony, which took place at the OAS Headquarters in Washington D.C., was also attended by the OAS Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza; the Assistant Secretary General, Albert Ramdin, several representatives from Member States and staff members from the Permanent Missions and from the OAS General Secretariat. Ambassador Bayney R. Karran from Guyana became the new Vice Chair of the Permanent Council.
The Statutes of the Permanent Council provides that the Chairmanship shall be held by each of the principal representatives in turn, following the alphabetical order in Spanish of the names of their respective countries. The office of the Vice Chair is filled in the same way but following the reverse alphabetical order. Both offices are held during a three-month term.
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