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.
About the Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs
The Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs is held in order to consider problems of an urgent nature and of common interest to the American states, and to serve as the Organ of Consultation.
Any member state may request that the Meeting of Consultation be called. The request must be addressed to the Permanent Council of the Organization, which decides by an absolute majority whether a meeting should be held.
When one or more of the member states that have ratified the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty) request that the Meeting of Consultation be convened in accordance with Article 13 of that treaty, the Permanent Council decides by the vote of an absolute majority of the states that have ratified that treaty whether the Meeting should be held.
The agenda and regulations of the Meeting of Consultation are prepared by the Permanent Council of the Organization and submitted to the member states for consideration. When the Council serves as Organ of Consultation, its proceedings are governed by the provisions of the Rio Treaty.
If, for exceptional reasons, a minister of foreign affairs is unable to attend the meeting, he or she shall be represented by a special delegate.
In case of an armed attack on the territory of an American state or within the region of security delimited by the treaty in force, the chair of the Permanent Council shall without delay call a meeting of the Council to decide on the convocation of the Meeting of Consultation, without prejudice to the provisions of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty) with regard to the states parties to that instrument.
The assistant secretary general acts as secretary of the Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs when the regulations of the Meeting so provide.
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