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.
ITALY CONTRIBUTES TO LANDMINE-CLEARING IN COLOMBIA
December 15, 2006
The Organization of American States (OAS) will receive a contribution of some 53,000 Euros (approximately U.S. $70,000), from the Italian government, to support Colombia in humanitarian demining operations which will be carried out in civilian communities threatened by antipersonnel landmines.
This new phase in Colombia’s humanitarian demining, scheduled to begin during the first quarter of 2007, will provide a rapid response when civilians report risks related to landmines. These explosive devices, which have been buried in a significant part of Colombian territory by illegal armed groups, cause an average of three victims per day, according to government statistics.
William McDonough, Director of the OAS Office of Humanitarian Mine Action, said that 40 military sappers will begin landmine removal operations in the first quarter of next year, and it is expected that “with generous international support, the number of sappers could reach 64.”
During the last OAS General Assembly, held in June in the Dominican Republic, Italian Ambassador Gerolamo Schiavoni stressed the commitment and interest of his government, as an OAS observer, to support the hemispheric organization with “concrete donations,” with an emphasis on the strengthening of democracy, protection of human rights and the support of humanitarian demining. Italy has had permanent observer status at the OAS since 1972.
The Landmines Observatory in Colombia is the national authority that coordinates humanitarian demining operations in that country, while the Colombian armed forces are responsible for executing the operations, with technical support and supervision from the OAS and the Inter-American Defense Board (IADB).
Canada, the United States and Italy were the first countries to support these types of activities in Colombia. The average costs of OAS annual operations in that country exceed half a million dollars.
The areas where humanitarian demining operations will take place will be determined by a governmental committee next year, based on the risk levels of the communities.
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