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.
Ambassador Sonia Johnny, the Permanent Representative of Saint Lucia to the Organization of American States (OAS), formally took the helm of the Permanent Council today, pledging that during her three-month chairmanship she would strive to help the Organization implement new mandates and meet new challenges.
The Saint Lucian diplomat accepted the gavel from Ambassador Izben Williams of St. Kitts and Nevis during a brief ceremony this morning at OAS headquarters. Ambassador Marina Valere of Trinidad and Tobago became the new Vice Chair.
In her remarks, Ambassador Johnny noted that the member states have strengthened the Organization in recent years by adopting such instruments as the Inter-American Democratic Charter and the Declaration on Security in the Americas, and by moving toward the creation of the Social Charter of the Americas, “which we hope will be propelled into existence in the near future.” She called on the OAS to strengthen the linkages between its political and economic agenda, adding that the region is increasingly calling for “the benefits of democracy to be addressed within the ambit of sustained development.”
The OAS must become an “engine of change” in the hemisphere and must also change itself, the Ambassador said, adding that this process has been underway in the past few months under its new leadership. Both OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza and Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin attended today’s ceremony, along with diplomats from many of the 34 member states represented on the Permanent Council.