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 Ambassador of Finland
October 25, 2011
Photo: OAS
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, met today with the Ambassador of Finland to the United States, Ritva Koukku-Ronde, at the Organization’s headquarters in Washington, DC, to talk about the priorities of the OAS in the Western Hemisphere and possibilities for cooperation with the government of the European country.
During the first meeting between the head of the OAS and Ambassador Koukku-Ronde, who assumed her current post on September 1st, 2011, and is also Permanent Observer to the Organization, the two spoke about the subject of electoral observation conducted by the hemispheric organization in the countries of the region. They also spoke about the Inter-American Democratic Charter and the positive impact it has had since its signing in 2001, on the defense of human rights and the promotion of democracy, and in general on current affairs in the hemisphere.
Secretary General Insulza thanked the Government of Finland for its important contributions to the Electoral Observation Missions (EOM) deployed by the Organization in its Member States. For her part, the European Representative asserted that her country’s government is committed to collaborate with the multilateral institution and shared her Government’s wish to continue working with the multilateral organizations of the region and the Inter-American System headed by the OAS.
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