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.
NOTING that January 1, 2004, will mark the bicentennial of the independence of the Republic of Haiti and that the Haitian people should be congratulated on the victorious end to the war against slavery and colonialism, waged with courage, determination, and gallantry;
RECOGNIZING that Haiti, the world’s first sovereign black republic, made a valuable contribution to the liberation of peoples of the Hemisphere, through example and direct support, thus playing an important role in the shaping and unfolding of the Hemisphere;
CONVINCED that the Haitian revolution contributed the world over to the struggle for respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; and
NOTING the vicissitudes that have affected the history of the Haitian people and its relentless efforts to build a stable democracy, and taking into account the support provided to it by the Organization of American States in this regard,
RESOLVES:
1. To express its congratulations to the people and Government of Haiti on the occasion of the celebration of the bicentennial of the independence of that country.
2. To welcome Haiti’s seminal contribution to the liberation of the peoples of the Americas.
3. To express its hope that the people of Haiti will succeed in forging a lasting democracy and in reinvigorating its socioeconomic development commensurate with its past achievements.