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.
AMBASSADOR JOHN F. MAISTO, PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF UNITED STATES TO THE OAS AT THE SIGNING CEREMONY OF THE AGREEMENT TO HOST THE 2005 OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY
March 24, 2005 - Washington, DC
• Secretary General Einaudi, it gives me great pleasure to be here today, representing the Government of the United States of America, to sign this important Memorandum of Understanding as host country of the XXXV Organization of American States General Assembly, to take place June 5 - 7 in the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. • This is truly a very important moment in history for the peoples of the Americas. The citizens of our Hemisphere embrace democracy as the best form of government, and have reasonable expectations that it will deliver a better quality of life. • The theme of this General Assembly - Delivering the Benefits of Democracy -- speaks to this challenge. Free elections are only the beginning for consolidating democracy. Today's democratically elected leaders must make democracy work by providing their people the tools and extending opportunity to improve their lives and contribute to the common good. Elected leaders must govern democratically and respect essential elements of democracy as spelled out in the Inter-American Democratic Charter. • The Inter-American System, and its multilateral institutions, must meet this challenge and achieve our objectives. Governments have approved, and the OAS is actively engaged in implementing, a core agenda of major initiatives that can significantly improve delivery of the benefits of democracy by expanding democracy's reach, strengthening democratic institutions and encouraging governmental transparency and sound management. • Given the breadth and significance of our agreed initiatives, our discussion of "Delivering the Benefits of Democracy" at the XXXV General Assembly of the Organization of American States should focus on how to improve our collective efforts to implement this democratic agenda through the Organization and the broader inter-American system.
• Secretary Einaudi, if we can resolve to advance these goals, the XXXV General Assembly of the Organization of American States will have done its part to reassure our peoples that their democratic representatives are determined to deliver both freedom and a better quality of life. The United States is honored to host the countries of our Hemisphere as we work to advance this important objective.