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.
Statement by the OAS Secretary General on International Migrants Day
December 18, 2010
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, welcomed International Migrants Day and recognized the contributions of migrants to the enrichment and development of the nations they adopt, as well as the significant economic benefits they contribute to their countries of origin.
“Today more than ever we must become involved in making progress towards the creation of basic understanding in dealing with the phenomenon of migration, promoting the capabilities of migrants as political, economic, cultural and scientific forces that contribute to the human and economic development of the societies they come from and those they adopt," he said.
Secretary General Insulza said an important goal at the OAS is "for Governments to generate and implement easy-access mechanisms to regulate migration, ones that make it possible to identify those who live, work, and study in their territories, guarantee fundamental human and labor rights for migrants, and fully recognize their contributions."
The head of the OAS reiterated that, on International Migrants Day, "the OAS honors these men and women who for any number of reasons must live in a country other than the one they were born in."
The OAS, through its Department of Social Development and Employment, recently launched a virtual tool that allows users to learn about the various temporary employment programs in which migrant workers in the Americas participate: Interactive Map of Temporary Employment Programs for Migrant Workers – MINPET available at www.migracionoea.org/MINPET
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.