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.
STATEMENT BY THE OAS SECRETARY GENERAL ON THE WAVE OF KIDNAPPINGS IN HAITI
December 15, 2006
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Jose Miguel Insulza, has been following with deep concern the wave of kidnappings being unleashed in Haiti, and states:
The OAS General Secretariat is especially concerned as children are being targeted by kidnappers and are even being murdered. These most reprehensible acts have left no segment of society untouched. We at the OAS stand in solidarity with the Haitian people and in particular with parents, who are being so harshly tested by this violence.
We condemn these crimes in the strongest terms and call on the perpetrators to put a stop to them immediately. All member states believe it is important for every necessary step to be taken to honor obligations assumed under conventions they have ratified and incorporated into their domestic laws. In this regard, the
> Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women
and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child are two basic treaties at the disposal of the Haitian state to help build a more secure society for its citizens.
We call on all leaders in Haiti and all those who exercise power and have influence over the course of events to make every effort to bring an end to the kidnapping and violence that are destroying Haitian society.