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 states of the Americas today began a round of meetings to reflect on the Organization of American States (OAS), its purpose, achievements, and future, during a special meeting of the Permanent Council.
The meeting, convened by the Chair of the Permanent Council and the Permanent Representative of Mexico to the OAS, Joel Hernández, includes the participation of the Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza, and a group of panelists which include Michael Harvey, President of the Canadian Council for the Americas; Ambassador Richard Bernal, Executive Director for the Caribbean at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB); Ambassador Luigi R. Einaudi, member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and Ambassador Carlos Portales, Director of the Program on International Organizations at American University.
Secretary General Insulza highlighted that currently, “relations within the Inter-American System are strong, vigorous, and in general healthy,” and he welcomed the dialogue because the System “has not remained rooted in the past, it has evolved to fit changing realities, which is proof of its vitality.”
The purpose of the meeting is to encourage open debate among the Member Countries on the main strategic lines that set the organization’s activities in the hemisphere, in order to eventually put forward ideas on how the OAS can carry out its mandates in a more efficient way that better serves its Member States.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.