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.
To build recognition of international commercial arbitration and its resulting decisions in judicial systems throughout the Americas, particularly to promote the international validity of arbitral decisions. The project will do this by training judges and other public officials on these topics. This should lead to greater public confidence in countries’ markets, as it increases legal certainty as to the enforceability of arbitral decisions. This project will act to.
Manage an effective training program that responds
to the particular challenges that Member States face in this arena.
Create a participatory process that incorporates
into the program each country’s contributions, suggestions, experiences,
and knowledge from national experts, academics, judges, arbiters,
associations, and arbitration facilities, as well as the private sector
and civil society.
Host sub regional workshops that promote
Inter-American and international law on international commercial
arbitration, including the legal norms defined by the various sub
regional integration treaties on the topic.
Incentivize the training of trainers, encouraging
workshop participants to replicate the training program locally.
Create networks and databases to facilitate the
exchange of knowledge and the use of modern information technology for
information sharing.