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 Meets with Members of the Regional Alliance for Freedom of Expression and Information
October 24, 2011
Photo: OAS
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, met today with members of the Regional Alliance for Freedom of Expression and Information, a coalition of civil society organizations from the American continent committed to the defense and promotion of both human rights.
During the meeting, held at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC, the members of the Alliance, headed by its Executive Secretary, Karina Banfi, expressed their desire to work more closely with the hemispheric Organization to deepen joint work initiatives on how to improve access to information and the implementation of laws on freedom of expression in countries of the continent; create additional spaces for dialogue with civil society focused specifically on these subjects; and support the significant progress achieved by the OAS in recent years on improving its own institutional transparency.
Secretary General Insulza recognized the importance of these issues, the need to improve the implementation of the already existing laws in various countries of the Hemisphere, and asserted his commitment and the Organization’s to create an evaluation or follow-up mechanism to support the efforts of the Member States of the OAS in implementing their laws on freedom of expression and access to information.