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.
Executive Office of the Secretary for Legal Affairs
A. Functions
1. Provides advisory support, within its areas of competence, to the General
Assembly, the Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, the
Permanent Council, the Meeting of Ministers of Justice or of Ministers or
Attorneys General of the Americas, the General Secretariat, and other organs,
agencies, and entities of the Organization.
2. Represents the Secretary General in dealings before the political bodies of
the OAS, on missions, at international meetings, and at other events dealing
with matters in its area of competence; prepares special reports and performs
other tasks as assigned by the Secretary General.
3. Ensures the implementation of the resolutions adopted by the political bodies
in its areas of competence.
4. Directs and coordinates legal and judicial cooperation with the member
states, international organizations, and governmental and nongovernmental
institutions.
6. Contributes to the development and codification of international law in the
inter-American arena, through recommendations, studies, and juridical
activities.
7. Establishes and maintains cooperative relations on juridical questions in its
area of competence with public and private organizations, whether national or
international, that have similar interests.
8. In its area of competence, maintains a training program for attorneys from
the member states, in the form of law internships.
9. Establishes a structure of posts that will ensure that the required outcomes
are attained with the resources assigned.
10. Carries out activities to raise and mobilize external funds to finance and
promote its programs, projects, and activities, in coordination with the
Committee on Resource Mobilization.
B. Administrative Support Section
1. The Administrative Support Section is responsible for providing financial,
budgetary, information technology, logistical, and human resource management
services to the Secretariat for Legal Affairs as a whole, including all its
departments, under the operational supervision of the Secretariat for
Administration and Finance.
2. It prepares the program-budget of the SLA and its dependencies and assists
the secretary for legal affairs in directing, administering, and supervising its
execution, in keeping with the instructions of the Secretary General, the
pertinent resolutions of the General Assembly, and the rules and regulations of
the General Secretariat.
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