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.
Executive Secretariat for Integral Development (SEDI)
The Caribbean Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Program, in existence since 2012, is implemented in the CARICOM region with the financial support of the Permanent Mission of the United States to the OAS and has collaborated with the Caribbean Export Development Agency, Compete Caribbean and other donors and international institutions. The program aims to assist CARICOM member states in strengthening the institutional frameworks of national MSME support programs utilizing the United States Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) model, and focuses on capacity building in the provision of quality and targeted support programs to MSMEs in beneficiary countries.
The SBDC Model
The model focuses on the enhancement of economic development through the strengthening of MSME support networks by providing small businesses with critical management and technical assistance through extensive one-on-one, long term professional business advising, low cost training and other specialized services.
A key feature of the program and arguably its most attractive is the ability to capture and record economic impact utilizing the customer relationship management (CRM) system NeoSerra. The tool is tailored to capture the data specific to the individual country context and track the economic impact of the MSME interventions at both the center and national levels.
Description of the Program
The Caribbean SBDC program aims to address five priority areas:
i) adjusting the regulatory framework to more efficiently address the needs of MSMEs,
ii) developing human capital,
iii) fostering MSME competitiveness and entrepreneurial spirit,
iv) developing regional MSME support structures, and
v) developing public/private partnerships to support the development of the sector.
Since the Program’s inception in 2012 the OAS, with the technical support of the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has advanced the adaptation and consolidation of the SBDC model in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and The Commonwealth of the Bahamas. Consolidation activities of the program have focused primarily on assisting participating beneficiary countries in ensuring the long‐term sustainability of their SBDC programs. The Program has also supported the advancement of the Network of Caribbean SBDCs and engaged in activities to strengthen its role in promoting the development of all Caribbean SBDC programs, with special emphasis on advocacy, quality assurance, professional development, and outreach to key program stakeholders.
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