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.
OAS Secretary General Receives Members of the Arab Human Rights Committee
March 20, 2015
Photo: OAS
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today received the President of the Arab Human Rights Committee, Hadi Ali M. Alyami, who was accompanied by other Committee members and paid a visit to hemispheric Organization’s headquarters within the framework of the meeting this week of the 154 Period of Sessions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
At the meeting, Secretary General Insulza explained the functioning, history and characteristics of the Inter-American System and emphasized the autonomous nature of the decisions of the Commission, its relevance in the Hemisphere and its relationship with member states. "In the OAS we have great respect for the independence of the Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, we do not give opinions about their decisions, and this is a factor that has strengthened them. These institutions belong to the countries," he said.
For his part, the President of the Arab Committee explained that the entity he represents was recently created, and therefore has a long way to go. "We hope to generate more frequent exchanges with the IACHR and the OAS and to learn from their experiences, cooperate and have a more fluid dialogue," he said.
At the meeting both authorities discussed issues related to the challenges in the defense of human rights in Arab countries and those of the Americas, the recent election of the next OAS Secretary General, the avenues for cooperation and exchange between the two entities, the International and Regional Conventions on human rights and their implementation and effectiveness, and the importance of broadening the scope of transitional justice applied in specific cases in several countries in both regions.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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