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.
Racism and all forms of Discrimination and Intolerance
In March 2010, the Inter-American Juridical
Committee (CJI) adopted the document titled “Comments
on the Draft Inter-American Convention against Racism and all
forms of Discrimination and Intolerance”, document
CJI/doc.339/09 rev.2, that encompasses ten comments submitted to
the Working Group of the Committee on Juridical and Political
Affairs of the OAS in charge of preparing said draft, with the
purpose of contributing to strengthening this important
Inter-American draft instrument.
In the development of this issue, the Inter-American Juridical Committee discussed the following document:
2007 CJI/doc.258/07 Preliminary Draft Inter-American
Convention Against Racism and all Forms of
Discrimination and Intolerance (Inter-American
Juridical Committee Report). CJI/RES. 124 (LXX-O/07) The Struggle against
Discrimination and Intolerance in the Americas.
2008 CJI/doc.312/08 The Struggle against
Discrimination and Intolerance (Presented by Dr.
Hyacinth Evadne Lindsay).
2009 CJI/doc.324/09 The Struggle against
Discrimination and Intolerance in the Americas:
Significant Achievements (Presented by Dr.
Hyacinth Evadne Lindsay). CJI/doc.330/09 The Struggle against
Discrimination and Intolerance in the Americas:
Corrective Measures (Presented by Dr. Hyacinth Evadne Lindsay).