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 Permanent Council Extends Until March Period to Present Proposals on Prioritization of Mandates
December 19, 2012
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today decided to extend until the second half of March 2013 the period for its Committees to present their proposals on the prioritization of mandates assigned to the institution’s General Secretariat.
Following a proposal by the Chair of the Council and Permanent Representative of Mexico, Joel Hernández, the body also asked the Chairs of all Working Groups to present, in January, a proposal on criteria “with the aim of targeting, in a joint and coordinated manner, the prioritization of mandates,” to finish the task within the expected timelines.
The Permanent Council adopted as well a commitment to continue “the political dialogue aimed at determining the best ways to achieve the goals which the OAS was originally founded for, and to do so with high priority and through the means it deems appropriate.” The body also authorized the Inter-American Committee for Integral Development and the Committee on Hemispheric Security to return to the General Committee those mandates they consider should be dealt with elsewhere. At the same time, it asked each Committee to consider those mandates that emerged from the most recent Summits of the Americas and Ministerial meetings.
The process of the prioritization of OAS mandates started after Secretary General José Miguel Insulza presented, in February 2012, the document “A new strategic vision of the OAS” with his ideas and proposals regarding the organization’s core tasks and the best way of rationalizing the budget so as to meet those demands. Following up on the aforementioned document, the Permanent Council adopted a Procedure and Schedule to carry it out. The process included the distribution of mandates by topic among the Council’s Committees, with the task of ordering them according to priority.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.
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