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.
It is a great privilege for me to be here today at the
Organization of American States for this prestigious Lecture Series. Thank you
Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza for your kind words of welcome.
Searching our archives, we found that UNESCO’s first
cooperation agreement was signed in 1950 by the prominent Mexican writer and
statesman, Jaime Torres Bodet, the Director-General of UNESCO at the time. I
am proud to follow in his footsteps more than half a century later. In an
increasingly connected, interdependent but also unequal and fragile world,
multilateral and regional cooperation is imperative for building more
inclusive and sustainable responses to global challenges. I welcome your
invitation to focus on education today.
Many years ago, one of Latin America’s great poets and
statesman, the Chilean Pablo Neruda, declared before UNESCO’s Executive Board,
“Education will be our epic! Education is the most demanding task, the sum of
what human beings have done and what they are capable of doing.” When Neruda
spoke about an epic, he captured the scale of what is at stake. Education
remains our foremost priority. It is at the centre of our fight for human
rights, human dignity and human security. Education drives development and
prosperity.
Rights, security, prosperity - these are the overarching
goals of the Organization of American States. They are in UNESCO’s DNA – and
they start with building peace in the minds of women and men, of girls and boys.
We stand at a critical crossroads – 1,000 days from achieving the Millennium
Development Goals and the Education for All goals.