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 Jamaica to Host High-Level Policy Forum on Tourism Resilience
July 18, 2022
The Organization of American States (OAS), the Ministry of Tourism of Jamaica, as the Chair of the Inter-American Committee on Tourism (CITUR) and the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association will host on July 20-21, the High-Level Forum for Building the Disaster Resilience of Small Tourism Enterprises (STE) in the Caribbean.
The event will explore how to build the resilience of STEs in the Caribbean to disasters, and will review and respond to the findings and recommendations from more than 500 enterprises and stakeholders to help accelerate business continuity in future crises.
During the two-day gathering, attendees will analyze ways to forge collaboration among all stakeholders, public and private entities, and small and big businesses.
The Forum will be inaugurated by the Minister of Tourism, Jamaica, Edmund Bartlett, the OAS Executive Secretary for Integral Development, Kim Osborne and the U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica, Nick Perry and will be one of the first activities of the CITUR’s Work Plan coming out of the Twenty-fifth Inter-American Congress of Ministers and High-level Authorities of Tourism held last October.