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.
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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.
Trinidad and Tobago Assumes Chair of the OAS Permanent Council
January 12, 2023
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The Permanent Representative of Trinidad and Tobago to the OAS, Anthony Phillips-Spencer, today assumed the Chair of the Permanent Council until March 31, 2023.
Ambassador Phillips-Spencer anticipated a robust agenda during his term, heading into the OAS General Assembly in June, and highlighted cooperation as a key to the success of the Council´s work. “I am confident that these three months and the months to follow and all the time we will spend here cooperating together will improve our capacity to respond to and fulfill the potential of this Organization.”
Meanwhile, the outgoing Chair of the Council, the Permanent Representative of Suriname, Jan Marten Willem Schalkwijk, noted the experience of his successor, and urged members to continue working together. “I did my best in the past three months It’s up to all of us to make the OAS better and more responsible and responsive to the needs of our member states,” he said.
The Permanent Representative of Panama, María del Carmen Roquebert, will serve as Vice Chair of the Council.
The Chair of the Permanent Council rotates every three months among the member states of the Organization, in alphabetical order. The Vice Chair also rotates every three months, but in reverse alphabetical order.