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.
Secured transactions reform is a complex process that
requires the support and participation of many different stakeholders at
the national level; reform efforts can also be strengthened through
support at regional and international levels. Given the complexity of
secured transactions reforms and the need for consistency with other
legislative reforms (in fields such as insolvency and bankruptcy),
collaboration remains of particular significance, both nationally and
internationally.
In this spirit, in delivery of the OAS Secured
Financing Project, we work in collaboration with several international
organizations — the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
(UNCITRAL), the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH),
and the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law
(UNIDROIT); these are organizations that have developed legal texts that
can serve as guides or models for Member States engaged in reforms of
secured transactions regimes and related matters. We also work in
collaboration with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the
World Bank Group, which operates a technical assistance program for
secured transactions and collateral registries. Links to the work of
these organizations is provided below.
Our collaborative work extends beyond participation
and input at events to other activities, such as sharing data, ideas and
good practices and ways to address gaps in country data,
capacity-building and institutional architecture – gaps that OAS Members
States need to fill in order to implement resilient and functional
secured transactions regimes.
OAS General Assembly Mandate
These collaborative efforts in the subject matter of
secured transactions are carried out in fulfillment of the mandate
recently affirmed by Member States at the OAS 44th General Assembly held
in Paraguay in June 2014, in a resolution adopted on the Promotion of
International Law (AG/RES. 2852 (XLIV-O/14). In paragraph 12 thereof,
the OAS Secretariat, through its Department of International Law, has
been instructed “to promote among member states further development of
private international law, in collaboration with agencies and
organizations engaged in this area, among them UNCITRAL, the Hague
Conference on Private International Law, and the American Association of
Private International Law (known by its Spanish acronym as ASADIP).” The
full text of this resolution can be found here [link] .
Work of Other International Organizations in Secured Transactions
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