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 Receives Inputs from Civil Society on Drug Policies in the Americas
May 8, 2013
The Organization of American States (OAS) will hold, tomorrow, Thursday, May 9, at its headquarters in Washington, DC, the 10th Hemispheric Forum with Civil Society and Social Actors on the central theme of the General Assembly of the organization of this year, "Toward a Comprehensive Anti-Drug Policy in the Americas".
The Forum has as its objective the exchange of ideas and the development of proposals and recommendations on the theme of the General Assembly, which will take place between June 4 and 6 in Antigua, Guatemala. The Secretary of External Relations of the OAS, Alfonso Quiñonez, and the Chair of the Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Panama, Ambassador Arturo Ulises Vallarino, will take part in the opening session. Representatives of more than 40 civil society organizations from the member countries will participate, together with technical experts in the field.
At the end of the Forum, participants will prepare an official document with recommendations which will be presented by the participants in a special joint session with the Committee on Inter-American Summits Management and Civil Society Participation in OAS Activities (CISC) with the Preparatory Committee of the General Assembly of La Antigua, Guatemala.