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.
With technical support from the Organization of American States (OAS) and financial support from the Colombian, Canadian and Italian Governments, this morning 18,000 weapons delivered by the demobilized groups of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) were destroyed within the framework of the Colombian peace process.
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza , Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos, and High Commissioner for Peace, Luis Carlos Restrepo, witnessed the event, which was held at the National Steel Plant Sidenal in Sogamoso, Boyacá. Members of the diplomatic corps, and national and international members of the press were also on hand.
“This ceremony has a major significance for the peace process in Colombia, because it reflects the decision to renounce and reject violence,” said Secretary General Insulza. “Peace is possible if we all work towards it. The OAS will continue to support this process and to answer through its work to the call made by President Uribe.”
The destruction of weapons also means that it eliminates their illicit transference to illegal groups. The residue of the melting will be used to build monuments of peace and iron sticks to manufacture homes for victims of the demobilized groups.
In addition, the event demonstrates the Colombian Government’s commitment and the support of the OAS in fulfilling duties according to the UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All its Aspects.
This initial effort carried out today in Colombia is part of the support provided by the Organization of American States, through its Mission of Support to the Peace Process and its Department of Public Security’s Office of Humanitarian Mine Action. “If we all make an effort, as we did today, to combat this scourge, we will prevail. Because the citizens of Colombia and Latin America that want peace are many. United, we will overcome death and pain. This is the great symbolism of today’s event,” concluded Insulza.
The OAS Office of Humanitarian Mine Action supports the eradication of anti-personal landmines in Colombia and provides assistance to hundreds of survivors so that they may have access to medical treatments, prosthetics, training and integration to a working and productive life.
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