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.
Since 1996, the OAS, through its bodies has addressed the issue of personal data protection. On the one hand, the General Assembly (GA) of the OAS has been approving resolutions on the subject, calling on Member States to take certain actions and occasionally conferring specific mandates to other bodies of the Organization.
The issue has also been on the agenda of the Inter-American Juridical Committee (CJI), which in 2000 presented its document "The Right to Information: Access and Protection of Information and Personal Data in Electronic Format." Since then, the CJI has continued to work in this area, adopting a series of documents. In particular, in 2012 the CJI approved a “Proposed Declaration of Principles of Privacy and Protection of Personal Data in the Americas”, in 2015 the “Legislative Guide on Privacy and Data Protection Personal in the Americas”, and in 2021 the “Updated Principles on Privacy and Protection of Personal Data, with Annotations”, seeking to contribute to the development of a framework to safeguard, in the countries of the Americas, the rights of individuals to the protection of their personal data and to self-determination regarding information.
These 13 Updated Principles, approved by the General Assembly in 2021 as well, aim to identify the basic elements of effective protection and, as an instrument of Inter-American soft law, to serve Member States as a point of reference to strengthen their own legal frameworks on the subject and steer the region’s collective development towards a harmonious protection of personal data.
Finally, the General Secretariat, through the Department of International Law provides advice and support to the political bodies and Member States regarding the different resolutions and documents adopted by the OAS and in its capacity as Technical Secretariat of the CJI, has supported the rapporteurs on the topic in the preparation of the aforementioned documents.
We invite you to view on this page the different documents produced by the OAS bodies on this topic – all of them available free of charge.
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