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 Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, met today with the Head of the Center for International Cooperation of Israel (MASHAV), Ambassador Haim Divon, in his office in Washington, DC to talk about the support MASHAV has been providing to the Young Americas Business Trust (YABT), an affiliate of the OAS, and about the current political situation in the Western Hemisphere.
During the meeting, Ambassador Divon, who is also Deputy Director General of his country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, expressed his wish to Secretary General Insulza to continue collaborating with the Organization and its affiliates, and reiterated his government’s interest in strengthening relations with the countries of the American continent, with many of which he said Israel has excellent relations.
For his part, Secretary General Insulza thanked the visit of Ambassador Divon and his delegation and offered a summary of the issues of greatest significance on the hemispheric agenda, as are the situation of Honduras before the OAS and its possible return to the hemispheric Organization, the economic growth the region is experiencing, and the issue of crime and organized crime that countries are facing, the principal theme of the upcoming OAS General Assembly, to be held June 5 to 7 in San Salvador.