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.
The Secretariat for Legal Affairs (SLA) serves
as depository for all
Inter-American treaties and their
instruments of ratification, which the Charter
of the Organization of American States assigns
to the General Secretariat [(art. 112, f)]. The
Secretariat also serves as depository for all
bilateral agreements between the Organs of
the OAS and Member States, Observer States,
agencies and other entities of these states, or
other Inter-American agencies.
As depository, the Secretariat for Legal Affairs
(SLA) performs, in general, the following
functions:
a. Maintain custody of the original text of the
treaty and any full powers delivered to the
depositary.
b. Receive any signatures to the treaty and
receives and maintain custody of any
instruments, notifications and communications
relating thereto.
c. Inform the parties to a treaty, as well as
the States entitled to become a party thereto,
of acts, notifications and communications
relating to such document.
d. Inform the States entitled to become parties
to the treaty when the number of signatures or
instruments of ratification or accession
required for the entry into force of the treaty
have been received or deposited.
e. Register the treaty with the Secretariat of
the United Nations.
f. Prepare certified copies of the original
text.
g. Maintain and disseminate an electronic
database on Inter-American treaties.
The Secretariat for Legal Affairs (SLA) also
follows specific norms adopted by the [OAS
General Assembly’s resolution] concerning
reservations, procedures for preparing and
adopting Inter-American legal instruments, and
procedures for correcting errors.
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