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.
Ranging from central Mexico to the Panama Canal, Mesoamerica possesses one of the richest concentrations of species and ecosystem diversity on Earth. With only 0.5% of the world’s land surface, Mesoamerica is home to more than 7 percent of the planet’s biodiversity, including spectacular species such as jaguars, tapirs, howler monkeys, quetzals and scarlet macaws.
Mesoamerica’s wildlife and ecosystems are threatened. Nearly half of the region’s natural habitats have been converted to agriculture or urban areas. High deforestation rates continue. But there is still hope for the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor.
In June 2014, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) teamed up with the Organization of American States (OAS) to launch the MESOAMERICA 2020 partnership. The goal is to ensure the conservation of the last remaining landscapes in the region while improving quality of life for people. Functional landscapes are important not only to protect wildlife and critical ecosystems, but also to protect water and food security, livelihoods, and sustainable economic growth.
Strategic Objectives
Promote healthy dialogue between government, the private sector and civil society to find resilient solutions for both natural ecosystems and human well-being.
Align policies and actions between entities charged with promoting food security, agriculture and ranching, economic development and trade, social welfare, and conservation of environment, protected areas, and wildlife.
Foster networks to facilitate regional learning and collaboration across sites to tackle pressing and complex conservation challenges.
Secure concrete, measureable protections for priority landscapes in Mesoamerica by 2020.