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 Secretary General Urges Continued Work in Favor of Refugees
June 20, 2012
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, urged governments and international organizations to keep working for the rights and improved living conditions of refugees and applicants for such status worldwide.
“On this World Refugee Day, we cannot forget the dramatic difficulties millions of people go through when they are displaced against their will from their people, cities, and countries, and we must take advantage of this day to issue a call to redouble our efforts to contribute to their safety and well-being,” said Secretary General Insulza.
The head of the OAS recalled that the issue of the refugees is a matter of concern to the OAS through the work of the Secretariat of Legal Affairs and the Department of International Law, which provides legal advice on the matter to the political bodies of the organization and through these, to the governments of the Member States.
The OAS also promotes and diffuses all the aspects related with the figure of the refugees, included in international treaties, activities carried out in close collaboration with the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), with which the OAS General Secretariat signed a cooperation agreement in 2007.
“Refugees see their lives changed forever, and due to causes beyond their control they are forced to start over somewhere else, away from their families. Helping them is a moral duty and an obligation of all of us, and a political obligation for governments and international organizations.” concluded the Secretary General of the OAS.”
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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