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.
EUROPEAN COMMISSION CONTRIBUTES ONE MILLION EUROS TO SUPPORT OAS DEMINING OPERATIONS IN ECUADOR AND PERU
January 18, 2006
The European Commission has committed one million euros to support humanitarian demining and other mine action activities in Ecuador and Peru this year, through a program coordinated by the Organization of American States (OAS).
Representatives of the Latin American Directorate of the European Commission’s Office of Cooperation and the OAS Mine Action Program have signed a cooperation agreement, and implementation is expected to begin by March.
The European Commission previously supported OAS-coordinated humanitarian mine action activities in 2004 in Nicaragua.
“We wish to profoundly thank all the international donors who support our programs and have allowed us to continue this humanitarian task,” said William McDonough, who coordinates the OAS Mine Action Program. “The battle against mines can only be successful if we commit ourselves to build better coordination and cooperation among and between those of us dedicated to the proposition of a landmine-safe world,” he added.
In the case of Ecuador and Peru, landmines are located in the border region, in the Condor Mountain Range. OAS mine action efforts started in both countries in 2001, and as a result of this effort, the government of Ecuador will begin to build a bridge by mid-2006 in a former mined area called Macará-La Tina.
Peru and Ecuador are both parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, also known as the Ottawa Convention.
The OAS Mine Action Program coordinates its efforts with the technical assistance of the Inter-American Defense Board (IADB). In addition to the programs in Nicaragua, Ecuador and Peru, the OAS initiated a humanitarian demining program last year in Colombia. In the last three years, it has completed demining activities in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Suriname.
Apart from the European Commission, 16 countries support the efforts of the OAS Mine Action Program. Since the program’s inception, nearly 15 years ago, financial and in-kind contributions from these countries have totaled more than $75 million.