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 DEBORAH MAE-LOVELL, PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA TO THE OAS SPEECH OF THE CHAIRWOMAN OF THE PERMANENT COUNCIL, AMBASSADOR DEBORAH MAE-LOVELL
July 24, 2007 - Washington, DC
Mr. Assistant Secretary General, Distinguished Ambassadors, Alternate Representatives, Distinguished Permanent Observers, Ladies and Gentlemen,
On May 21, 1986, the Permanent Council took the important decision of paying tribute to the father of the Inter-American system, the great Liberator, Simon Bolivar. The Council institutionalized July 24 as the date on which it would hold a Protocolary meeting to celebrate the birth of this illustrious American figure. The decision provides us with an opportunity to reflect on his ideals, vision of the future, and the realization of his dreams as we continue along the path that he started and willed to the people of this hemisphere.
224 years ago, on July 24, 1783, Simón Bolívar was born in Caracas. At an early age, he lost both his parents and was left in the care of his uncle, don Carlos Palacios. At the age of fifteen, the young Simon Bolivar was sent to Spain where he pursued an education and began developing his philosophy on Spanish American independence, and a dream for a free America.
Bolivar prepared himself for his later accomplishments as he carried out duties as a diplomat and military officer – developing a profound knowledge of politics and statecraft even as he developed the strategic prowess that would later inform his military campaigns. Bolivar’s discourse in favor of independence to the Patriotic Society of Venezuela, delivered in June 1811 reflected his commitment to the cause of independence.
The Liberator’s political concept of the League of Friendship and mutual assistance, uniting all the Latin American states, was grandiose indeed. In his pragmatic interpretation of the realpolitik of the first half of the nineteenth century, he envisaged the paternalistic participation of a powerful force from outside the Hemisphere to guarantee the survival and prosperity of this union. Bolivar wrote down a statement of his perception of the advantages to be gained from proposed confederacy.
Bolivar’s vision constituted a precursor of the Charter of our OAS and inspired many of its principles. The passage of time and the changing circumstances of our common condition remain as relevant today as they were in 1826.
The Liberator Simon Bolivar guided us towards goals of justice and dignity based on principles of freedom, political independence, and educational opportunity. This has greatly contributed to our understanding of the concept of an inter-American community of nations and the establishment of the sound foundation on which the OAS stands today.
Distinguished colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, with freedom as our inspiration, guide, and protection, we can grow stronger to cultivate our virtues and talents, develop our resources, ensure general welfare, and command universal respect. This is the path toward the realization of the dream of Simon Bolivar, and his vision of the Union of American States.