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 and Migration Policy Institute to Promote Regional Responses to the Migration Phenomenon
August 31, 2018
Photo: OAS
The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Migration Policy Institute today signed an agreement to cooperate in research and education on international migration and the flow of migrants in the region.
At the signing ceremony, Secretary General Luis Almagro recalled that the phenomenon of migration "has been a constant reality in the hemisphere and in the work of the General Secretariat since we assumed this task. Today more than ever, it presents challenges that go beyond national dimensions, requiring rethinking alternative solutions with a regional and, in several cases, hemispheric perspective."
For his part, the President of the Migration Policy Institute, Andrew Selee, referred to the urgency of the issue given the current migration situation of nationals from Venezuela, Haiti and different countries of Central America. "We are facing a situation in which, on one hand, the States want to control their borders and they have a right to do so; and at the same time, many people in our region leave their countries out of necessity with legitimate demands for asylum and protection. Combining these two needs is a public policy task on which we will work together," he said.
The ceremony took place at the OAS headquarters in Washington, DC.