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 situation in Venezuela demonstrates “a clear weakness in the fundamental pillars that must support the rule of law in a democratic system, consistent with the American Convention on Human Rights and other international instruments,” the report states.
The seven-chapter document, which is available on the Web (www.cidh.org), is based on information the Commission collected before, during and after a visit to Venezuela in May 2002, following the coup d’etat of April 11 and the reinstatement of President Hugo Chávez on April 14. The report covers events up to October 2003.
The Commission sent the draft report to the Venezuelan government in November 2003, requesting its comments and observations, but these have yet to be received.
The report points to several positive aspects of Venezuela’s Constitution, including a provision that gives constitutional rank to human rights treaties; expanded legal protections for personal safety and integrity; special provisions related to human rights, including the rights of indigenous peoples and social, economic and cultural rights; and the creation of new institutions to protect human rights.
However, it notes a number of “worrisome signs of institutional weakness,” including the failure to give full application to the new Constitution, the perception that the branches of government lack independence and the growing concentration of power in the executive branch. The report also expresses concern about the impunity in which certain armed civilian groups and “para-police” units operate, the constant attacks on journalists and the media, and the tendency to militarize the public administration through the increasingly prominent role of the armed forces.
The Commission visited Venezuela at the request of President Chávez, who during a 1999 trip to Washington became the first head of state to personally visit the IACHR headquarters at the Organization of American States (OAS). The Commission’s on-site visit was scheduled immediately following the political crisis of April 2002.