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.
The General Assembly of the OAS, through resolutions AG/RES. 2548
(XL-O/10) and
AG/RES. 2607 (XL-O/10), requested the Permanent Council,
in collaboration with the Department of International Law, conduct a
special session of the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs to
address the topic of access to public information in order to determine
the effectiveness of the OAS’ activities to date and to plan for the
OAS’ future work.
This special session, held in December 2010, focused on five main
themes, in accordance with the mandates of the General Assembly, namely:
1) review of the work of the OAS to date in terms of access to
information, including the principles and recommendations on access to
information; 2) submission of a revised study on best practices compiled
by Member States; 3) presentation of the Inter-American Model Law on
Access to Public Information and implementation guide contained in
resolution AG/RES. 2607 (XL-O/10), adopted by the General Assembly in
June 2010 and submission of final comments on the issue by Member
States; 4) first presentation of draft recommendations on data
protection; and 5) determination by Member States about the possibility
of preparing an Inter-American program on Access to Public Information
that will help consolidate the work completed in the past and set an
agenda for future work of the OAS in this area.
This Special Session included the participation of the Inter-American
Juridical Committee, the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of
the Human Rights Commission, the Secretariat for Legal Affairs, through
its Department of International Law and Secretariat for Political
Affairs. Also in attendance were many experts who participated in the
drafting of the model law and its implementation guide, as well as civil
society organizations dedicated to ensuring the right of access to
information on the continent, including the Carter Center and the
Regional Alliance for Access to Information and Freedom of Expression.
Also participating were experts from Member States, who offered their
comments on the model law and considerations for the proposed program,
including the Federal Institute of Access to Information and Data
Protection (Mexico) and the Council for Transparency (Chile). Finally,
the Special Session was also attended by the World Bank, which presented
its newly adopted policy on access to information applicable to all
branches of the institution.
This Special Session was open to the public and held in the Simon
Bolivar Room of the headquarters of the OAS.
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