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.
OAS Assistant Secretary General Urges Salisbury University Students to Engage on Hemispheric Events
October 16, 2014
The Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert Ramdin, has urged students of Salisbury University, in the U.S. state of Maryland, to increase their engagement on issues of domestic, hemispheric and international politics.
Addressing students and faculty at a public meeting on the University campus this week, the high ranking career diplomat said “Our world is getting smaller. This year alone we have witnessed how challenges and threats on one side of the globe have had almost immediate fall-out or impact on the other side. If we fail to take note or engage, it is at our own peril.”
Assistant Secretary General Ramdin also shared the view that, “a multilateral approach to solutions is required, if transnational challenges are to be addressed in a sustainable manner.” He added, “no single stakeholder can have a sustainable impact, unless they have support. We must carefully determine which issues we support, why we support them, and the best way to demonstrate support.”
Explaining that the Organization of American States is the only political platform where 34 countries from the Hemisphere with shared interests and challenges can meet and act collectively, the Ambassador Ramdin said governments of the Hemisphere had a duty to “continuously review how they could create better conditions for stability and economic growth, through more comprehensive development frameworks, with special focus on the needs of youth, women and children.”
On multi-dimensional security challenges in the Americas the OAS official noted that approximately 20 million young people in the region neither study, nor work. “Until we address social exclusion and create meaningful opportunities for our youth, countries will not be able to effectively progress or experience sustainable growth,” added the Washington based diplomat.
Urging students to increase their knowledge of hemispheric challenges, Assistant Secretary General Ramdin added, “Your generation has the potential to provide solutions, answers, or shift the direction of public policy.”
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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