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.
Warehouse receipt financing is a form of asset-based lending where the stored (“warehoused”) products are used as collateral for credit. This lending mechanism is a useful way to improve access to credit in the agricultural sector. Producers receive needed cash against the warehouse receipt, which is issued upon delivery of the goods to the warehouse; as a consequence, producers no longer need to sell immediately upon harvest, when prices are typically low, and can delay sale until prices are more favorable. Improved performance of the agricultural sector has been shown to be essential in many countries as a way to stimulate economic growth and development.
An effective warehouse receipt system requires both a reliable network of the physical infrastructure – (i.e., modern warehouses) - and a supportive legal framework. Accordingly, out of concern over the lack of access to credit in agricultural sector, in 2012 the Inter-American Juridical Committee included the topic on its agenda and in 2016 it approved draft principles that would: a) promote a reliable system of warehouse receipt financing; b) compliment and strengthen other reform initiatives in secured lending; c) apply equally to both paper-based and electronic receipts; d) straddle differences between common law and civil law systems of warehouse receipts; and d) contribute towards ongoing efforts in the development of related international norms. The Committee has held in abeyance any further work on the topic, pending a decision on a joint project to develop a Model Law on Warehouse Receipts by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT). For details, see Inter-organizational Collaboration.
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