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 EUROPEAN COMMISSION WILL SIGN A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
December 16, 2009
The Organization of American States and the European Union tomorrow, December 17, will sign a Memorandum of Understanding between the European Commission and the General Secretariat of the OAS.
This agreement will contribute to create a framework for the development of dialogue and cooperation in areas of common interest within Latin America and the Caribbean. Specifically, the overlapping priorities established by both sides include the protection of human rights, the advancement of integral development, the strengthening of democracy and other issues of transnational relevance.
Working principles arising from this agreement touch on the development of formal and regular bilateral consultative meetings on policy issues between the two organizations; engagement in ongoing consultations and reciprocal sharing of information regarding especially the EU-LAC Summits and the OAS General Assembly; and finally exchanges of experiences and best practices.
The agreement is an important milestone of political will for increased cooperation between the OAS and the European Union, and an opening for potential contractual relations as well as for identifying specific opportunities for collaboration between the two sides.
The European Union has been a Permanent Observer to the OAS since 1989 and has been the fourth highest contributing Permanent Observer to the Organization over the past two years, providing more than US$2.5 million in 2008 and 2009. Support in past years has focused mainly in the areas of reducing illegal drug consumption and trafficking, the protection of human rights and demining activities.
What: OAS and European Union sign Memorandum of Understanding
Where: 17th Street and Constitution Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20006
When: December 17, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.
Contact: Irene Klinger
Director, Department of International Affairs
Organization of American States
Telephone: (202) 458-6072
Email: [email protected]