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.
COSTA RICA ASSUMES CHAIRMANSHIP OF OAS PERMANENT COUNCIL
January 5, 2010
The Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador José Enrique Castillo, today assumed the chairmanship of the Organization’s Permanent Council, and described his new responsibility as a commitment “to serve, facilitate the constructive, permanent and fluid dialogue that our nations know how to conduct and preserve.”
The diplomat was handed the mallet by Ambassador Luis Alfonso Hoyos, Permanent Representative of Colombia to the OAS and until now the Permanent Council’s Chairman, who said that during his presidency “all subjects to be addressed were discussed and some incorporated in the final agenda of the OAS,” such as quality evaluation of public governments and progress achieved in the Social Charter of the Americas.
The new Chairman said he was committed to be guided in his work by “the Charter of the Organization of American States, whose nature, goals and principles continue to be fully relevant and whose implementation must daily be renovated.”
During the same event, Ambassador Gillian Bristol, the Permanent Representative of Grenada, assumed the Vice Chair of the Permanent Council from Ambassador Jorge Skinner-Klee, Representative of Guatemala.
The ceremony, held in the office of the President of the Permanent Council at the Organization’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., was also attended by José Miguel Insulza, the OAS Secretary General; Albert Ramdin, the OAS Assistant Secretary General; Luis Diego Escalante, the Ambassador of Costa Rica to the White House; and the Permanent Representatives to the OAS of Brazil, the United States and Saint Kitts and Nevis, as well as officials from the General Secretariat and Permanent Missions.
The Chairmanship of the Permanent Council is exercised successively by the head representatives of Member States, in alphabetical order of the Member States’ names in Spanish; the Vice Chair is exercised in the same way, though following reverse alphabetical order. Both positions are held for a period of three months.
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