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.
The governments of Bolivia, Panama and Paraguay today deposited documents at the Organization of American States (OAS) relating to their ratification or signing of various inter-American treaties—on human rights, radio communications, and on the protection of archeological and artistic heritage.
In the case of Bolivia, during a ceremony that country’s Alternate Representative to the OAS, Patricia Bozo de Durán, signed documents formalizing the ratification of the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture. According to Bozo, the ratification of this instrument by her government demonstrates and reaffirms that all acts of torture represent a denial of human rights.
For his part, OAS Secretary GeneralJosé Miguel Insulza stressed that this treaty represents an affirmation of the will of the region’s governments to respect fundamental human rights. The Inter-American Convention against torture was adopted in 1985 in Cartagena, Colombia, and with this step taken by Bolivia, has now been ratified by 17 member states.
Meanwhile, the government of Panama, represented by Ambassador Aristides Royo, became the first country to sign a protocol adopted by the member states in 2003 to amend the same Inter-American Convention on an International Amateur Radio Permit.
Secretary General Insulza hailed the steps taken by Panama and Paraguay and noted the importance of amateur radio, particularly during natural disasters or other emergencies where no other forms of communication are available.
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