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.
Permanent Council Decides on Procedural Issues for the Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs
July 1, 2014
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) held a meeting this morning in Washington DC to advance in the preparations for the Twenty-Eighth Meeting of Consultation of Foreign Ministers to be held this Thursday, July 3 at 15:00 EDT (1900 GMT) at OAS headquarters, which will consider the issue of “Sovereign Debt Restructuring: The Case of Argentina and its Systemic Consequences.”
Today’s meeting approved the draft agenda, the draft schedule in which a closed session prior to the start of the meeting was established, and the draft rules of procedures for the Foreign Ministers Meeting. It was also established by lottery that Venezuela will serve as provisional Chair in the opening session of the Meeting of Consultation until the Chair is elected.
The meeting of Foreign Ministers was approved by acclamation at the Permanente Council meeting held on Monday June 30.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.
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