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 Peruvian Judiciary Sign Agreement on Legal Cooperation
December 4, 2013
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, and the Chief Justice of Peru, Enrique Javier Mendoza Ramirez, today signed a framework agreement on legal cooperation in a ceremony at the headquarters of the Organization in Washington DC.
The Secretary General highlighted that "with this agreement, we will strengthen both the knowledge and management capacity of the judiciary of a member country of the Organization." The agreement includes "a set of activities that can be performed, a battery of instruments, with a special chapter dedicated to issues of probity and the fight against corruption," said the Secretary General.
The leader of the hemispheric Organization said that "corruption and transparency are issues that are closely linked," and explained that, in this matter, "we like to emphasize positive measures to encourage transparency and probity, rather than simply punish the guilty."
For his part, the Chief Justice of Peru welcomed the "opportunity to carry out an agreement that allows us to use models of transparency, probity and efficiency of our judges."
"Through this agreement," said the head of the Supreme Court of Peru, "we will learn through models that allow us to improve our judicial system, and thus reinforce the aid we receive in an unsystematic manner" from other member countries.
The framework agreement signed is an instrument of cooperation to promote the dissemination of knowledge among judges of the efforts of the OAS relating to the codification and progressive development of international law. The document highlights various contributions of the Inter-American System to international law, including the development of standards for the protection of human rights, the establishment of procedures for the peaceful settlement of disputes, the development of principles of asylum law and rules regarding the law of the sea, and the strengthening of judicial cooperation, development and codification of private international law in areas such as commercial law, arbitration, and issues relating to the family and children.
A gallery of photos of the event will be available here.
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