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.
Distinguished Heads of Delegation Distinguished Permanent Representatives of the OAS and Alternate Representatives Secretary General Luis Almagro,
I greet you warmly, and thank you for your presence here this afternoon. Given the circumstances, my intervention will be appropriately brief.
I begin by extending heartfelt appreciation to the Member States for your unambiguous support for my candidacy, unopposed as it was, and now for having re-elected me as Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States for the period 2020-2025 with an unassailably solid mandate.
I am humbled by your faith in my leadership and I am honored to continue serving the interests of our Member States.
Allow me also to congratulate Luis Almagro upon his re-election as Secretary General for the next 5 years and to pledge, for my part, a close and harmonious working relationship with him.
Your Excellences, I am tremendously honored by the responsibility entrusted to me, particularly given the turbulent times we now face, and accept with confidence the challenge of surmounting all obstacles to the strengthening of the core pillars of this Organization through continued collaboration with Member States.
I pledge today my earnest commitment to ensuring that this Organization is optimally positioned to assist each of its Member States in addressing the global pandemic and other crises plaguing our world at this time, and to surmounting the anticipated adverse impact on our economies.
This is clearly certainly a daunting time in the history of the Americas and indeed in the world…, but it must also be a defining moment for our Organization.
We must, as a collective body, remain resolute and steadfast in buttressing the strength of our union, and in consolidating our efforts to safeguard the health and wellbeing of our citizens, mindful that in so doing we are protecting the future of our nations.
For my part, I will remain unswerving in working with you and your governments to seek out the most appropriate and effective channels to address this global concern, and to create pathways for overcoming all pressing issues facing our hemisphere.
I reiterate my thanks to you, Excellences, and to all of the Member States which you represent in service to our hemisphere.
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