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.
Guatemala Signed Agreement with the OAS to Host Special General Assembly on Drugs
July 3, 2014
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala, Fernando Carrera, today signed the agreement according to which the Central American country will host the Special General Assembly on drugs on September 19.
Secretary General Insulza highlighted that the special Assembly comes with “a great deal of expectation within an important process,” which included the production by the OAS under his supervision of the Report on the Drug Problem in the Americas (Analytical Report and Scenarios Report) and the Assembly in Antigua, Guatemala which “was very important.”
“There is a great deal of expectation on the subject, and now is a good time to strengthen the process, and to reach concrete agreements,” said the OAS leader, who recalled that the meeting in the Central American country will be held just days before the General Debate of the General Assembly of the United Nations, which will allow the countries of the region to report in New York on the agreements adopted in the Hemisphere on this scourge that affects the entire planet.
Foreign Minister Carrera, for his part, expressed his gratitude for “the trust that the OAS has once again placed in Guatemala,” and that his country assumes the task “with emotion and responsibility, not only organizational and logistical, but above all political.”
The Guatemalan Minister said he approaches the meeting “with a spirit of finding agreements on specific solutions that allow us to orient drug policies in the Hemisphere over the coming years.”
The signing, which was also attended by the Guatemalan Deputy Minister Carlos Raúl Morales, took place at the headquarters of the OAS in the framework of the 28th Meeting of Consultation of Foreign Ministers of the multilateral institution, which considered the issue “Sovereign Debt Restructuring: The Case of Argentina and Its Systemic Consequences.”
A gallery of photos of the event will be available here.