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 resolution entitled “Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
in Business,” document AG/RES. 2840 (XLIV-O/14), adopted by the
General Assembly in June 2014, requested the Permanent Council to
hold a special meeting, through the OAS Committee on Juridical and
Political Affairs in first quarter 2015, “to foster the exchange of
best practices and experiences in the promotion and protection of
human rights in business.”
Operative paragraph 5 of the aforementioned resolution states:
6. To request the Permanent Council to hold a special meeting
of the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs in first quarter
2015 to foster the exchange of best practices and experiences in the
promotion and protection of human rights in business. That special
meeting shall be attended by the member states; government,
academic, and civil society experts; and other social actors, as
well as representatives of international organizations, and through
the Secretariat for Legal Affairs shall prepare a report of that
meeting’s findings prior to the forty-fifth regular session of the
General Assembly.
Participants at the special meeting should include the member
states; government, academic, and civil society experts; and other
social actors engaged on this issue, as well as international
organizations.