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 the First Vice President of the City Legislature of Buenos Aires
April 19, 2012
Photo: OAS
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today met with the First Vice President of the City Legislature of Buenos Aires, Cristian Ritondo, with whom he spoke about the importance of the issue of public security for countries in the region and the options to continue the support that the organization has provided to the City Legislature in the area of institutional strengthening.
At the meeting, held at the headquarters of the OAS in Washington DC, the two shared their views with respect to the issues of insecurity and organized crime, stressing that initiatives such as the marking of firearms and the fight against crime and urban violence are key to combating insecurity.
During the meeting, Secretary General Insulza recalled that at the XLI OAS General Assembly held in San Salvador in June 2011, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the region adopted the Declaration of San Salvador in which they recognized the importance of the issue of citizen security and made important commitments to cooperate on this issue.
Since December 2008, the OAS has been collaborating with the City Legislature of Buenos Aires in a capacity building program that promotes political dialogue and technical cooperation between the provincial legislatures.