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.
The Inter-American Cooperation Network (COOPERANET) fostered by the Organization of American States (OAS) was set in motion during the high-level meeting that took place October 26 & 27, 2009, in Bogotá, Colombia, with 26 delegations from OAS Member States in attendance, as well as other national and international agencies.
The meeting, held under the banner, “The effectiveness of hemispheric cooperation”, gave its full support to COOPERANET. The role of the OAS as a facilitating agent and forum for dialogue on issues of cooperation, opportunities for maximizing regional cooperation—including alternative models—and new tools of information and communication to improve the effectiveness in cooperation were among other issues discussed at the event.
COOPERANET seeks to support continuous dialogue among high-level cooperation authorities in the hemisphere, help implement actions proposed by those high-level authorities, promote the spread of information and knowledge, identify areas of opportunity, as well as collect and communicate lessons learned and examples of good practices.
The OAS will be in charge of the Technical Secretariat of COOPERANET, where other national, regional and international institutions will also participate. Cooperation agencies and authorities from 24 Member States have so far confirmed their participation: Argentina, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Chile, El Salvador, United States, Grenada, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Suriname and Uruguay.
The Inter-American Cooperation Network, according to the OAS Assistant Secretary General, Amb. Albert Ramdin, “can potentially be an important mechanism to continue the debate on a more effective hemispheric cooperation structure.”
“We need to establish a cooperation framework that radiates trust and confidence and is capable to attract substantive financial resources to deliver development services to member states in a timely and effective manner to alleviate poverty and to foster social and economic prosperity,” said Amb. Ramdin at the opening session.
Several experts from national cooperation agencies around the world, as well as representatives from international institutions were in attendance at the “Specialized CIDI Meeting of High-Level Cooperation Authorities,” including the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, ECLAC, PADF, the Clinton Foundation, the Young Americas Business Trust and the Young Entrepreneurs of the Americas.