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 Permanent Representative of Brazil to the Organization of American States (OAS), Benoni Belli, today assumed the Chair of the Permanent Council, a position he will hold until June 30, 2025.
During the ceremony held at the Organization's headquarters in Washington, DC, Ambassador Belli indicated that during his tenure, Brazil will prioritize the fight against hunger and poverty, as well as respect for diversity and the promotion of inclusion. “We must not fail to identify with courage and determination the discrimination, violence and exclusion that is the reality of millions in our hemisphere,” he said. The new Chair of the Permanent Council assured that the OAS must be “efficient” and have “the capacity to contribute to concrete solutions, respecting the sovereignty of member states and the plurality of visions, while still helping governments to comply with their commitments and obligations.” To this end, he announced that during his tenure he will promote “the strengthening of multilateralism, respect for international law, and the enhancement of our procedures and methods of work, in order to ensure equal opportunities for all delegations to express their views and participate actively in the debates.”
For his part, the outgoing Chair and Permanent Representative of Bolivia, Héctor Arce Zaconeta, assured that he had fulfilled his work plan in its entirety. “We leave the post with the tranquility of having fulfilled our duty, with the satisfaction of having put a small grain of sand in the long and complex construction of an organization on which, beyond its lights and shadows, the expectations of the majority of the peoples of our region, so desirous of greater justice, democracy, security, institutionality and, above all, greater preeminence of human rights, are based.” The Ambassador highlighted the “great professionalism, wisdom and integrity” of the new Chair of the Permanent Council, and expressed his certainty that “his term as chair will be exemplary and of great benefit to our Organization.”
The Vice Chair for the March-June period will be held by the Permanent Representative of Ecuador, Manuel Montalvo Samaniego.
The Chair of the Permanent Council rotates every three months among the member states of the Organization, in alphabetical order. The Vice Chair rotates every three months in reverse alphabetical order.
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