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.
Contracts are essential to international trade and commerce. But when
contracting parties are from different jurisdictions, a question that
invariably arises is “which law should govern the contract”? Should it
be the domestic (national) law of one of parties? If so, which party?
Such questions have vexed the legal community for centuries and created
uncertainty for the business community. Over time, most states have come
to accept the principle of party autonomy – let the parties decide for
themselves (subject to overriding public policy). But the Americas have
lagged behind, despite an early effort in the Mexico Convention.
In 2019, the Inter-American Juridical Committee (CJI) approved the Guide
on the Law Applicable to International Commercial Contracts in the
Americas. Among its purposes is to assist legislators called to examine
the domestic legal system governing the law applicable to international
commercial contracts, tribunals that settle disputes relating to such
contracts, as well as contracting parties themselves. While the Guide is
based upon the fundamental principles of the 1994 Inter-American
Convention on the Law Applicable to International Contracts (“Mexico
Convention”), it also incorporates subsequent developments in the field
since its adoption, in particular, the 2015 Hague Principles on Choice
of Law in International Commercial Contracts.
The CJI undertook the elaboration of this Guide, given ongoing
disparities among the relevant domestic laws within the region, in order
to promote legal harmonization and thereby stimulate economic
integration, growth and development in the hemisphere.
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