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.
New Permanent Observer of France to the OAS Presents Credentials
January 8, 2010
Ambassador Pierre-Henri Guignard of France today presented credentials to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, as his country’s new Permanent Observer to the Organization.
During the ceremony, which took place in the Secretary General’s office at OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C., the French diplomat said his country “shares the same values and vision of the countries of Latin America.”
The new Permanent Observer added that he will be ready in his new position to “tighten the links between France and the European Union and each of your countries,” referring to the OAS Member States. “I shall observe, listen and, as much as it will be needed, participate in the process that makes this Organization special, highlighting the evidence: France is very much a part of America.” In his speech, Guignard recalled the historic influence of his country on the continent and its current presence in Guadeloupe, Guyane, Martinique, and Saint Pierre et Miquelon.
The Secretary General recognized that the Government of France and its President Nicolas Sarkozy showed “interest in achieving a much stronger commitment with this organization” upon allocating to the OAS a representative “with knowledge and experience in the whole of the Americas such as Ambassador Guignard’s.”
“We have tried these years to make the OAS the principal political forum in the continent, carrying forth initiatives and policies, and including in our agenda all regional issues. I believe there is no place in the American continent where a better view of our diverse ideas and opinions may be obtained,” the Secretary General said.
The new Permanent Observer was Ambassador of France in Panama, Latin America advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France, and has played various diplomatic roles in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Peru.
Also present at the ceremony were OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin; the President of the Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Costa Rica, José Enrique Castillo; and the Permanent Representatives of Brazil and Canada.
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