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.
Secretary General Insulza Proposes Maintaining OAS Budgetary Levels for 2012
May 13, 2011
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today proposed maintaining the Organization’s budget for 2012 at the same levels as 2011, with a sole adjustment of three per cent to cover inflationary increases.
Speaking at a special session of the Permanent Council in Washington, DC, the Secretary General proposed fixing the Regular Fund program-budget level for 2012 at US$87.9 million, US$83.1 million of which will be funded with Member State quotas. US$2.3 million will be financed with resources from the recovery of indirect costs from projects financed with external funds, US$341,000 from FEMCIDI for technical and administrative support and US$2.2 million will be obtained through resources from other income (interest, rentals, and amortization).
The total amount of the budget and Member State quotas must be defined by the Foreign Ministers of the Americas at the upcoming OAS General Assembly, June 5-7, in San Salvador. Subsequently, the OAS Permanent Council and the Preparatory Committee will be called to consider the Secretary General’s proposal and to draft a 2012 budget to be considered by a Special General Assembly in October.
“The time is right to achieve rational resource management so as to ensure that this valuable institution can continue to improve its capacity to maintain peace, promote democracy, safeguard security, protect human rights, and ensure that development reaches all citizens of the Americas,” Secretary General Insulza said.
The head of the Hemispheric Organization added that he submitted a proposal “in accordance with recent expressions of intent by some Member States and the specific recommendations on the matter by the Board of External Auditors.” At the same time, he highlighted that budgetary adjustments were made in recent years “in the least traumatic way possible,” despite the fact that at the end of 2011 the Organization will have 250 less Regular Fund positions than in 1995.
Secretary General Insulza warned however that internal adjustments and the proposals for 2012 fail to address the root of the budgetary issue, namely: first, the imbalance between expenses and income from quotas (the former must be indexed to real inflation, while the latter can only increase three per cent annually); and, second, the proliferation of mandates assigned by the General Assembly to the Organization.
At the Special Session the Permanent Representatives of the following countries also took the floor: Mexico, Dominican Republic, United States, Guatemala and Canada, all of whom formulated proposals such as increasing Member State quotas and raising funds to make necessary improvements in OAS buildings.
A gallery of photos of the event will be available here.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.