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.
REGION URGED TO STRENGTHEN “CULTURE OF COOPERATION” AGAINST TERRORISM
February 16, 2005
PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO – The countries of the Americas must continue to build a “culture of cooperation” if they are to develop effective strategies to combat terrorism, the Acting Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luigi R. Einaudi, said today, at the opening of a three-day meeting of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE).
“No one country has all of the answers to improving the security of our citizens against the threats posed by terrorists, who seek to exploit the rules of civilized society,” Einaudi said. He urged the delegates to exchange information and work together to advance their ambitious work plan, which calls for action in such areas as border controls, money laundering and cybersecurity.
Einaudi cautioned that “obtaining action in the absence of a visibly clear and present danger can be difficult, particularly in the face of competing demands for resources, which we face in all our countries.” Noting that all 34 OAS member states have signed the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism and 12 have ratified it, he called for the remaining countries to seek to ratify the treaty as soon as possible, and also to bring their own national legislation into harmony with its provisions.
At the opening ceremony, the Acting Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Lenny Saith, echoed the need for cooperation and underscored the role of a strong democratic society in confronting the threat of terrorism.
“Our countries must provide no breeding grounds for terrorist activities,” Saith said, adding that democracies must ground themselves in justice and the rule of law and address real problems of poverty and inequality in order not to provide a platform for terrorist causes.
For his part, Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of National Security, Martin Joseph, called for “urgent, practical and harmonized” efforts to address threats in the hemisphere. “We are all potential victims, given the indiscriminate nature of terrorism,” said Joseph, who will chair CICTE during the coming year.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Works and Transport, Franklyn Khan, and outgoing CICTE Chair Elias Bluth, Uruguay’s Under-Secretary for National Defense, also spoke at the opening session. The high-level delegates from around the hemisphere will be meeting here until Friday to assess their progress and examine how to sustain and strengthen their counter-terrorism efforts.
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