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 1996-2013 may be found here.
About six weeks after the end of each quarter of each year, the OAS publishes a Quarterly 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.
Mobilize the support of civil society organizations for the preparation of the Draft Declaration.
Build consensus positions among representatives of civil society and obtain recommendations and follow-up activities on the theme and agenda to be considered during the Ministerial Meeting.
Benefit from the best practices efforts, including advocacy, of civil society and work on the ministerial theme to be analyzed during the meeting.
Previous consultations
Advancing Towards Sustainable Development in the Americas: Virtual Forum of Consultations to Civil Society and Social Actors, June 8 to 26, 2015. »See Report | »See Discussion
Presentation of Civil Society and Key Social Actors (Presented by Alejandra Goyenechea, representative of the Defenders of Wildlife Organziation) »See Report
Advancing Towards Sustainable Development in the Americas
Hemispheric Round Table with representatives of Civil Society and Social Actors
Dialogue: "Building a post 2015 Sustainable
Development Agenda for the America.
The DSD is committed to the development and implementation of policies that ensure civil society
(individuals, the private sector, the labor sector, political parties, academics, and other
non-governmental organizations) and youth participation in planning, managing, and decision-making
for sustainable development.
In order to strengthen and guarantee a wide participation of civil society and youth during the
preparatory process of the Second Ministerial Meeting, the DSD will conduct different kinds of
outreach and public consultations processes, such as informative bulletins, a hemispheric virtual
consultation forum, three subregional consultations and a hemispheric roundtable prior to the ministerial
meeting.