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.
In furtherance of the mandate from the OAS General Assembly to
disseminate the Model Law on the Simplified Corporation as widely as
possible (International Law, AG/RES. 2906, June 2017), the Department
has requested that each Member State consider the appointment of a Focal
Point to enable a channel of communication between the OAS and those
offices, ministries or bodies responsible for the modernization of
corporate legislation and simplification of business incorporation. By
means of this mechanism, a network is being established for the
effective dissemination of the Model Law throughout the hemisphere.
The first regional meeting of this network of Focal Points was held
virtually in August, 2019, when the Department of International Law and
the Department of Economic Development joined forces for a virtual
meeting, with the focus being the Model Law and its particular benefits
for MSMEs. The meeting included an overview of the Model Law and its
development within the context of Law 1258 of Colombia, after which the
OAS model was largely based. This was followed by a presentation on the
legislative reform initiative to implement the Model Law in Uruguay. The
meeting then offered a forum for questions and dialogue.
More of such exchanges will lead to concrete opportunities for
horizontal cooperation as the regional network of Focal Points is
expanded and strengthened. Participants have been asked to provide
information or updates on the status of reforms in their respective
countries, which has been incorporated into a report for the region as a
whole and is
available here.