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.
FROM NEW BELIZE AMBASSADOR, A CALL FOR MORE ROBUST OAS ROLE
ON POVERTY, SOCIAL EXCLUSION, CORRUPTION
June 24, 2008
Ambassador Nestor Mendez, the new Belizean Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), while challenging the hemispheric body to be more robust in its critical role in combating poverty, social inequity and corruption, has identified education and people empowerment as “the principal prescriptions” against these and other major scourges.
In his first formal address before the OAS’ second-highest decision-making body since he became Permanent Representative for his country, Ambassador Mendez also cited rising food costs resulting from “record oil prices” and concerns about alternative energy sources, and climate change. He argued that while the organization has been moving to address these challenges, more can be done.
Mendez, who presented credentials to the OAS Secretary General in early June, in his wide-ranging maiden speech also pointed to other urgent issues such as migration and sustainable development. “It is clear to us that only through visible and sustainable improvement in the standard of living of our people, bolstered by the provision of the best possible education and health care, food security, and the fabric of social stability, that the dividends of democracy will become real,” the Belizean diplomat remarked.
Thanking the OAS for supporting the ongoing process between Belize and Guatemala as they seek a “fair, equitable and definitive resolution to the territorial differendum,” Mendez also revealed to the fellow ambassadors and other Member States representatives that both countries are preparing to hold constitutionally-required public consultations and referenda before taking their territorial differendum to the International Court of Justice. Both governments had agreed to take their case to the international court as recommended by OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, Ambassador Mendez recalled.
The Belize envoy also reserved special praise for the OAS and its leadership on many of the key hemispheric agenda issues. “Today, the OAS is the undisputed leader in the promotion and protection of democracy and human rights in the hemisphere, and it enjoys a privileged place as both guardian and advocate of our democratic values and democratic systems,” Mendez declared. In the area of security, he noted, “the organization has embraced its challenging mandates with determination and clarity of purpose, and the results have been excellent.”
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