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 and the Netherlands Sign Memorandum of Understanding on Security
December 3, 2012
The Organization of American States (OAS) and the government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands today signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at strengthening cooperation in areas of common interest related to multidimensional security.
The Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza, highlighted the changing nature of the threats to security in the region, which, he recalled “were well defined in our conference on security in Mexico in 2003, and ever since we have been trying to increase and strengthen as much as possible the work we do in matters of public security, which is a major threat to democracy.”
The OAS leader recalled that the Netherlands has been a Permanent Observer to the OAS since 1972, and has made invaluable contributions to several programs including the Mission to Support the Peace Process in Colombia (MAPP-OEA) and the Inter-American Program of Judicial Facilitators. “The contribution of your country makes it one of the most relevant donors to the organization”, said Secretary General Insulza. “When we have engaged in working on something, we have worked together very well and very successfully and seriously and I am sure the same will happen with this Memo of Understanding.”
Representing the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Arthur Dowers noted that “the security threats we face today are different from those we faced many years ago”. Minister Dowers said the Netherlands understands now better than ever that “the safety and security of each and every nation is guaranteed only if each and every democratic country that is willing and especially able” to contribute to multilateral security efforts, does so.
Also present at the signing ceremony were the deputy chief of mission for the Royal Netherlands Embassy in the United States, Peter Mollema; the Assistant Secretary General of the OAS, Ambassador Albert Ramdin; The Secretary for External Relations of the OAS, Alfonso Quiñonez; and the Permanent Representatives of Nicaragua and Canada to the OAS, among others.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.
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