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 met with Mexico’s Secretary for Foreign Affairs
June 5, 2012
Photo: OAS
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, met today with the Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Patricia Espinosa, during the forty-second regular session of the OAS General Assembly, which is taking place in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
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The OAS Secretary General and the Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Mexico talked about some of the principal items on the hemispheric agenda and analyzed the topics being debated at the General Assembly session, beginning with the main theme of the meeting: “Food Security with Sovereignty.” They also discussed matters relating to hemispheric security and efforts to combat organized crime; current debate about drug policy, and the Mexican presidential election scheduled for July 1, to which the OAS will be sending an electoral observation mission.
Secretary General Insulza was accompanied by his Chief of Staff, Ambassador Hugo de Zela, and the OAS Secretaries for Political Affairs and Multidimensional Security, Kevin Casas-Zamora and Adam Blackwell, respectively. For her part, Secretary Espinosa was accompanied by Mexico’s Permanent Representative to the OAS, Joel Antonio Hernández.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.