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 Secretary General of Organization of American States, (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, and the Permanent Observer of the People’s Republic of China before the OAS, Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong, today signed two five-year cooperation agreements between the hemispheric organization and the Government of the People’s Republic of China in a ceremony held at OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The Secretary General thanked China for the renewal of its commitment with the organization, “which shows its continuous dedication to share our objectives.” “This is a strong signal of the conviction held by the international community to improve the quality of life of our fellow global citizens,” he said.
For his part, Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong said he was confident that China and the OAS “are fully able to build on what has been achieved, continue to increase mutual understanding and exchanges, and further expand the mutually beneficial cooperation so that the Chinese and American people will be better off.”
The agreement, the “Additional Protocol between the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the General Secretariat of the OAS,” has the goal of promoting OAS projects of international cooperation for governance and economic and social development in the region, as well as renewing cooperation between the Asian country and the organization for the next five years. With the agreement China will contribute one million of dollars to OAS activities.
Through the “Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and the General Secretariat of the OAS for Human Development and Scholarships Programs,” the Government of China will cooperate during the next five years with ten scholarships (US$300,000 dollars annually) for undergraduate and graduate nationals of OAS Member States to study in China.
Since 2004, a year after the Government of the People’s Republic of China joined the OAS as Permanent Observer, a five-year cooperation period was established that has now concluded. In that period of time, China contributed financially to the OAS for development in areas such as electoral observation missions, reduction of natural disasters, addressing violence against women, promoting education and the rights of youth, and cultural development, among others.
The ceremony was also attended by the President of the OAS Permanent Council and Representative of Colombia before the OAS, Luis Alfonso Hoyos, as well as the Permanent Representatives of Chile, El Salvador, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela.