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.
JOINT ITU/CITEL FORUM ON “ENABLING AN ICT BUSINESS
ENVIRONMENT IN THE AMERICAS REGION”
April 18, 2008
The Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL), an Organization of American States specialized agency, is teaming up with the International Telecommunications Union to host a forum at OAS headquarters on Monday, April 21, on “Enabling an ICT business environment in the Americas Region.”
OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin will address the opening session, along with the Director of the ITU’s Telecommunication Development Bureau, Sami Al Basheer Al Morshid, and the Chair of the CITEL Permanent Executive Committee, Pedro Pablo Quirós Cortés.
The one-day Forum begins at 8:45 a.m., and precedes the April 22-25 Eleventh Meeting of CITEL’s Permanent Consultative Committee II: Radiocommunication including Broadcasting. Details are online at http://www.citel.oas.org/sp/ccp2-ProxReunion.asp.
Seeking to strengthen dialogue and private-public sector exchange of experiences on the improvement of mutual cooperation for the telecommunication/ICT development in the Americas, the Forum is also aimed at developing a policy and regulatory environment that promotes industry/information communication technology (ICT) development and investment, with a special focus on ICT expansion in rural and remote areas.
Drawing on a variety of international and private sector telecommunications experts, the Forum will also feature roundtable discussions exploring such topics as ICT development in the Americas; strategies to stimulate ICT development; and enabling investment and new opportunities.
The Forum will be webcast live, on the OAS website at: www.oas.org.
WHAT: Joint ITU/CITEL Forum on “Enabling an ICT business environment in the Americas Region”
WHEN: Monday, April 21, 2008
TIME: 8:45 a.m. (Washington Time)
VENUE: Hall of the Americas
Organization of American States
17th Street & Constitution Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006