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.
SEMINAR IN BELIZE-GUATEMALA ADJACENCY ZONE ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
November 28, 2006
The Organization of American States (OAS) will hold a seminar this week in San Ignacio, Belize, to help broaden the capacity of immigration, custom and law enforcement authorities from Belize and Guatemala to identify and understand the crime of trafficking in persons.
The seminar, organized by the OAS General Secretariat in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), will provide training to help the governments of Belize and Guatemala combat trafficking in persons across the Belize-Guatemala Adjacency Zone. It is designed to raise awareness among governmental entities of both countries on how to recognize cases and victims of trafficking in persons; support local authorities in implementing anti-trafficking policies with the participation of civil society; and strengthen coordination and cooperation mechanisms between immigration, customs and law enforcement officials of Belize and Guatemala to fight this crime.
In order to achieve these objectives, the participants in the seminar will engage directly in a two-day training activity, which begins today in the Adjacency Zone, with the participation of international experts from Central and South America. Speakers will include the Coordinator of the OAS Department of Public Security’s Anti-Trafficking in Persons Section, Fernando García-Robles, and the OAS Director of the Secretary General’s Office in the Adjacency Zone, Miguel Angel Trinidad, as well as government officials and representatives of nongovernmental organizations.
The Belize-Guatemala Adjacency Zone was established several years ago, through negotiations held under the auspices of the OAS. The OAS field office there helps monitor compliance with “confidence-building measures” agreed to by both countries, which continue to work toward resolving their long-term territorial differendum.