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.
CJI Principles and Guidelines on Public Defense in the Americas (2016)
At the request of the Inter-American Association of
Public Defenders of the Americas (AIDEF), which originally submitted a
proposal to the Committee, the plenary adopted these principles and
guidelines that provide for adequate protection of the right to judicial
defense. Access to justice is presented as a fundamental human right
that is not exhausted upon entering the judicial instance but extends
throughout all stages. Reference is made to the work of public defenders
in the service of legal defense and their role in the field of
prevention, denunciation and accompaniment of victims of torture and
other inhuman, cruel and degrading treatment. It also promotes the
importance of the independence, functional, financial and/or budgetary
autonomy of the official public defense, and the inclusion of such
defense in all jurisdictions (not limited to the criminal jurisdiction
only). Finally, States are urged to eliminate obstacles that affect or
limit access to public defense, and to provide access to justice to
their citizens through a free state legal aid service.
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