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 Secretary General Calls for Unwavering Defense of Human Rights
December 10, 2014
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, commemorated today Human Rights Day with a call on "the peoples and governments of the member states and the world, to continue to defend unwaveringly the validity and respect for human rights."
Secretary General Insulza reiterated his call on the countries of the Americas that have not yet done so to ratify the American Convention on Human Rights, also known as the Pact of San José, and to accept the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, "for our region to have a truly universal Inter-American system."
The OAS leader recalled that "the defense of human rights is - together with democracy, security and integral development - one of the four pillars on which the OAS is based, as is reflected in its Charter".
He added that the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, signed six months before the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations, initialed on this day 66 years ago, "also constitutes an invaluable contribution to the global validity of these values." The Secretary General said that "our Hemisphere has one of the most advanced systems for the protection of human rights in the world, which obliges us to be active defenders of its validity, its respect and promotion."
The Secretary General warned that "efforts to protect human rights must be renewed every day, starting with governments and with all the sectors that make up our society because we are all responsible and must contribute to their protection, as the violation of these rights demands more than contemplation and passivity."
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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