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.
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today commemorated World Press Freedom Day during a regular session held at Organization headquarters in Washington, DC.
On behalf of her fellow ambassadors, the Chair of the Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Grenada to the Organization, Gillian Bristol, recalled that freedom of expression “is a fundamental human right. The Inter-American Convention on Human Rights, in Article 13, very clearly speaks to that, as does the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Article 19.”
“We denounce any and all acts that restrict or deny such freedom of expression and lament the deliberate taking of lives of journalists or anyone who would wish to express their own opinions. Freedom of expression is one of the pillars and ways in which our democracies are marked,” Ambassador Bristol said.
Representatives of the following countries also took the floor during the meeting: the United States, Panama, Uruguay, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Canada, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Guyana (on behalf of CARICOM), Nicaragua, Venezuela, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Paraguay; they highlighted the value of freedom of expression in democracy building.
At the same session, the Permanent Council also elected Fernando Gómez Mont Urtea by acclamation as a new member of the Inter-American Juridical Committee, replacing his fellow countryman Jorge Palacios Treviño, who stepped down for personal reasons.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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