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.
STATEMENT BY THE CHAIR OF THE OAS PERMANENT COUNCIL
January 6, 2005
“The tsunami tragedy in the Indian Ocean has made clear that the world is one in its vulnerability to natural disasters,” the Chair of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), Manuel Maria Cáceres, said today.
Cáceres, the Permanent Representative of Paraguay to the OAS, said many OAS member states have offered financial, or technical assistance to the nations affected by the giant tsunami, several of which—India, Sri Lanka and Thailand—are permanent observers at the OAS.
Noting that many Central American and Caribbean nations of the Americas have suffered devastating floods and hurricanes and that historically tsunamis have caused colossal damage and loss of life along the coasts of Chile and Peru, Cáceres asked OAS Acting Secretary GeneralLuigi R. Einaudi to convene the Inter-American Committee on Natural Disaster (IACNDR). This body consists of the heads of the OAS, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development (IACD) and the Pan American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH), with participation of the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) and the Inter-American Defense Board (IADB).
Acting Secretary General Einaudi indicated that he will convene a meeting of the Inter-American Committee on Natural Disaster Reduction as soon as possible with a view to improving regional and global cooperation in disaster relief, including the establishment of early warning systems. In response to the tragedy in Grenada in the wake of Hurricane Ivan, Einaudi agreed that measures should be developed that would be applicable to more than individual countries so as to facilitate greater Caribbean integration. The challenge highlighted by the latest global tragedy is to develop such measures on a global as well as sub-regional scale.
Ambassador Cáceres said: “We in the Americas who have experienced such devastation from natural phenomena send our most profound and heartfelt condolences to the Indian Ocean nations that with the tsunami disaster have suffered enormous damage, and pledge to continue sharing with them our expertise and resources to confront the difficult situation affecting the region.”
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