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.
U.S. OFFICIAL PROPOSES OAS RESOLUTION ON CYBER SECURITY
December 3, 2002
A senior U.S. official has suggested the Organization of American States (OAS) consider passing a General Assembly resolution “setting out cyber security goals for member states.” According to Michele Markoff, Senior Coordinator for International Critical Infrastructure Protection Policy at the State Department, this would be a useful approach to building on existing work on this subject.
Dr. Markoff told Western Hemisphere ambassadors at a meeting of the Committee on Hemispheric Security, chaired by Mexico’s Ambassador to the OAS Miguel Ruiz-Cabañas, that protecting information infrastructure is as vital to the safety and well-being of citizens and economies as is the physical protection of government buildings, airlines, or public places.
Everyone can help bolster security in cyberspace, she argued, noting the topic has become “a very different national security issue than those we have long grappled with” and is so new that U.S. strategy is still evolving at both the national and international levels. “What we are sure of is that national efforts alone are not enough if the rest of the world remains unprotected.”
Markoff commended important steps taken by the OAS so far to “ensure that misuse of information technology is effectively criminalized,” stating that Meetings of the Ministers of Justice of the Americas (REMJA) have devoted experts groups to this matter since 1999.
Meanwhile, João Bernardo Honwana, Chief of the Conventional Arms Branch of the United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs, spoke about disarmament, arms control and military spending limits, declaring that while considerable progress has been made in nearly all aspects of the UN conventional disarmament and arms control agenda, “a lot more remains to be done, in both conceptual and practical terms.”
Honwana listed a variety of actors that can and should play an important role in tackling the cyber security challenge—among them international and regional organizations, research institutions and civil society bodies—although insisting the main responsibility rests with individual states. He also renewed his Department’s commitment to stronger ties with the OAS towards a “safer and better world.”
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