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.
Foreign Minister María Eugenia Brizuela de Avila of El Salvador, who chairs CICTE, will address the opening session, as will OAS Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi and Spain’s Ambassador to the UN and CTC Chair, Inocencio Arias. Other participants in the day-long meeting will include the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Ambassador Jan Kubis, the European Commission’s Counter-terrorism Policy Coordinator, Patricia Holland, Sylvain Ngung of the African Union, as well as delegates from Asia, the Middle East and more than 50 international organizations. This meeting is a direct successor to a meeting hosted by the CTC on March 6, 2003.
Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1373 calling for obligatory anti-terrorism measures for the UN member states. It established the Counter-Terrorism Committee to review countries’ actions, determine how to strengthen compliance and take steps to further cooperative efforts against terrorism.
In the last two years, the OAS/CICTE has strengthened hemispheric cooperation against terrorism, developing recommendations for the OAS member states on such matters as border security, customs controls and financial regulations. The Inter-American Convention against Terrorism took effect in July of this year.
The opening session Tuesday is open to the press, and the entire meeting will be Webcast live (www.oas.org).
WHAT: Opening session, “Implementing International Counter-Terrorism Strategy:
The Role of Regional and International Organizations”
WHEN: 9 a.m., Tuesday, October 7
WHERE: Hall of the Americas
Organization of American States
17th St. & Constitution Ave. NW
Washington, D.C.
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