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.
Press Conference "Americas in Dialogue-Our Common Home” on Thursday September 8
September 7, 2016
A press conference presenting the conclusions of Americas in Dialogue-Our Common Home forum will take place on September 8 after the meeting of His Holiness Pope Francis with the forum participants.
The event will feature Pope Francis, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, ministers from various countries of the Americas, ambassadors to the OAS, members of the judiciaries of the region, Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious leaders, and distinguished members of the academic world, among others.
The Dialogue is part of the initiative “Protecting our Common Home: Ensuring Rights for More People in the Americas,” launched by the General Secretariat of the OAS and other partners, which is focused on participatory, inclusive and inter-religious dialogue and the rule of law and justice.
The objective is to create a platform for dialogue between the countries of the OAS, that supports reconciliation and the search for solutions for the protection of our Common Home, and to produce a Plan of Action for the next three years.
The First Encounter “Americas in Dialogue-Our Common Home” on September 7 will feature presentations by Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, OAS Secretary General Almagro, Presbyter Guillermo Marcó, Muslim leader Omar Abboud y Rabbi Daniel Goldman. On September 8 the initiative will be presented to Pope Francis. Full agenda of the event available here http://www.oas.org/en/sg/commonhome/agenda.asp.
Journalists interested in attending the opening of the Encounter and/or the Press Conference should send today a digital copy of their passport (picture page) before 17:00 EDT (23:00 in Rome, 21:00 GMT) to Luz Marina Peña ([email protected]) and Claudia de Windt ([email protected]).
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