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.
Message from the Secretary General on Human Rights Day
December 10, 2018
Today we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the adoption at the United Nations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This celebration of Human Rights Day comes at a time of great challenges in the Americas. In several countries, we see the systematic violation of human rights at the hands of the State. The failure by the international community to act effectively for an extended period has allowed forces hostile to human rights to entrench themselves in parts of our region.
Today is a day to remind ourselves that human rights must be actively defended. Inertia, inaction, passivity are what have allowed dictators and human rights violators to become part of the landscape of the Americas. Those of us who believe that human rights are inalienable rights - not something granted or taken away at the whim of a government - are obliged to play an active role, to make our voices heard to expel these practices from our region. Staying silent is to be complicit with the torturers, the murderers, the despots and the tyrants.
In practical terms, that means using all legal means to hold human rights violators responsible: through investigation by the International Criminal Court, through sanctions in international bodies, through following through our continuing commitment to protect human rights.
Eleanor Roosevelt said that universal rights begin "in small places, close to home." At the OAS, our home is the Americas, and our instruments of protection begin with the Inter-American System of Human Rights, which is also celebrating a 70th anniversary, and which is an invaluable asset that must be protected and strengthened day to day. Because today, more than ever, there are people suffering in the Americas that demand we stand up for them.
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