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.
Overview: The Workshops on International Law, organized by the General Secretariat, bring together prominent international law professors, from the public and private sectors and prestigious universities in the Americas, to analyze current legal issues, exchange ideas and proposals for action to improve the teaching of international law, strengthen ties between academic institutions in the Hemisphere, and promote the study of inter-American law and its systematic incorporation into the international law programs of law schools at the various universities.
The Workshops on International Law are conducted in pursuance of the Declaration of Panama on the Inter-American Contribution to the Development and Codification of International Law and the Inter-American Program for the Development of International Law. In the last six years, the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States has been conducting Workshops on International Law, in accordance with the aforementioned instruments.
Content: The publication on the Workshops on International Law covers the proceedings, the professors’ debates, the speeches given by officials at the inaugural and closing sessions, the conclusions and recommendations, and the working documents prepared by staff of the Secretariat for Legal Affairs (SLA) (background, program, final report).
All the texts are published in the original language in which the courses were presented.