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.
The government of the United States will formally ratify the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism today at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS). Thomas A. Shannon, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, and the U.S. Ambassador to the OAS, John Maisto, will attend the ceremony in the office of OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza.
The U.S. Senate gave its advice and consent to ratification of the treaty on October 7. President George W. Bush subsequently signed the instrument of ratification, which will be deposited at the OAS today.
The Inter-American Convention against Terrorism – the first such international treaty negotiated after the September 11 attacks – provides the legal framework for cooperation among the 34 OAS member states in the fight against terrorism. The United States will be the fourteenth OAS member state to become a party to the treaty, which was adopted by the OAS General Assembly in 2002 and entered into effect in 2003.
What: United States to deposit instrument of ratification of the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism
Who: Thomas A. Shannon, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
Ambassador John Maisto, Permanent Representative of the United States to the OAS
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza
When: Tuesday, November 15, 2005
12 noon
Where: Office of the Secretary General
OAS Headquarters
17th St. & Constitution Ave. NW
Washington, D.C.