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.
GANGS POSE A SERIOUS THREAT TO HEMISPHERE, EL SALVADOR OFFICIAL TELLS OAS
November 30, 2005
Oscar Bonilla, Chairman of El Salvador’s National Public Security Council, today warned the Organization of American States (OAS) Permanent Council that criminal gangs in Central America threaten democratic stability and governance in the hemisphere.
Elaborating on alliances between certain gangs and transnational organized crime, Bonilla argued that “what we have is a combination of the war experience along with drug- and human trafficking which is reaching our countries, and no one country can handle this on its own.” He said this is why the Central American Integration System is seeking to coordinate policing and border security policies as a matter of urgency.
Speaking about border problems, Bonilla described “a Guatemala under siege on Central America’s northern border,” noting it is a corridor used by gangs for human trafficking but also for weapons and drug trafficking. He added that Mexico has similarly become a platform for such activities, “complicating the border with the United States.”
Bonilla’s address to the OAS Permanent Council, made at the request of El Salvador’s Ambassador to the OAS, Abigail Castro de Pérez, noted the increasingly dangerous and sophisticated technology at the disposal of criminal groups. He also spoke about the results of Central American strategies for prevention as well as reincorporation and rehabilitation of youth at risk or on the other side of the law.
The Salvadoran official called on OAS member countries to tackle the problem as a collaborative effort, mindful of provisions articulated in the resolution issued by OAS General Assembly in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, last June, and the inclusion of a related paragraph in the a Mar del Plata Declaration issued by the hemisphere’s leaders at the end of their Fourth Summit of the Americas this past November 5.
Permanent Council Chair Ambassador Izben Williams of Saint Kitts and Nevis thanked Bonilla for his presentation, while member state delegations expressed support for programs proposed by the governments of the affected countries. They also promised to follow up on measures adopted to stem the spread of gangs across the region.
During the same meeting, the Secretary General of the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI), Ambassador Didier Opertti, addressed the Permanent Council on “The ALADI of Today: its relations with the OAS.”
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