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 World Press Freedom Day
May 5, 2011
Freedom of the Press is one of the fundamental pillars of democracy, and therefore so is the existence of free and diverse media organizations, as well as freedom of expression as a governing principle of the democratic system.
From this perspective, social media, as the main depositaries of citizens’ right to information, play a key role in the functioning of a full democracy, because a free, strong and dynamic press guarantees development and the right balance between public powers and the interests of citizens.
For this to become a reality, it is essential for the press to be able to work freely and be treated with the full respect and recognition accorded other public powers. Unfortunately, freedom of the press is not always respected, and many times the truth isn’t revealed to the public and violence is used to eliminate journalists.
That is why on this day, besides welcoming freedom of expression, I want to remember all of the journalists who have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession, trying to give a voice to the voiceless and in many cases acting as anonymous heroes.
With an awareness of the importance of the role of the media, and while remembering the thousands of journalists in the world who are persecuted and killed for reporting on the truth, let’s continue to work together to defend their freedom, because it will also make all of us more free.
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