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 ZICOSUR to Work Together to Improve Competitiveness and Institutional Strengthening
September 17, 2019
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The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Subnational Entities Members of the Zona de Integración del Centro Oeste de América del Sur (ZICOSUR) today signed a cooperation agreement that aims to achieve sustainable development and to work together to improve competitiveness through institutional strengthening.
The Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, highlighted the importance of working with regional governments, “because they are close to the people and their daily problems.” “This is a commendable job because we are looking together to achieve the best capabilities for the realization of the real goals of our people. More rights for more people is our philosophy and it is up to you to ensure that the institutions can respond to the needs of the people,” said Secretary General Almagro.
For his part, the President of ZICOSUR and Governor of the Argentine province of Tucuman, Juan Luis Manzur, said the agreement marks a before and after in the life of the institution. “ZICOSUR has existed for more than three decades and this agreement renews our hope for a better future, which is what we want, to join together, articulate, to improve the quality of life of our people,” he added.
ZICOSUR brings together 55 subnational governments from seven countries in South America (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile, Peru and Uruguay), and through the agreement with the OAS seeks to achieve the insertion of the subregion into the international context, to improve competitiveness, foreign trade and the promotion of social and cultural integration.