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.
Uruguay as Host Country Presents Tenth Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas
May 12, 2011
The Brigadier General Jerónimo Cardozo, Director of International Affairs at the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Uruguay presented last week before the Inter-American Defense Board (IADB) details of the Tenth Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas (CDMA), to be held in his country in the second half of 2012.
The representative of the Uruguayan Ministry of Defense said in a meeting with the leaders of the IADB, that “in our opinion, the defense goes to support the sovereign efforts so that, in pursuance of the Constitution, to protect the rights of our citizens to own a decent roof, a functioning health system and education that will enable us to compete in this increasingly important area of knowledge."
The CDMA was created to provide a forum of debate for the countries of the Hemisphere and thereby increase cooperation in the areas of Defense and Security as outlined in the Williamsburg Principles. In the context of this forum, the authorities responsible for the defense in the Americas discuss topics such as confidence and security building measures, peace support operations, civil-military relations, and emerging threats such as transnational organized crime and terrorism.
In 2009, the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) charged the IADB with the responsibility of being the technical secretariat responsible for maintaining the institutional record of the ministerial process.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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