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.
OAS PRESENTS REPORT ON INVESTIGATION OF DIVERSION OF NICARAGUAN ARMS TO THE UNITED SELF-DEFENSE FORCES OF COLOMBIA
January 20, 2003
The Permanent Representatives of Nicaragua, Panama, and Colombia to the OAS have received the Report on the Diversion of Nicaraguan Arms to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia.
Present during the presentation of the report were Ambassador Luigi R. Einaudi, Assistant Secretary General, in charge of the General Secretariat, and Ambassador Morris D. Busby, appointed by the Secretary General to head the investigation. “The report submitted to the states describes the circumstances of the arms diversion and presents conclusions and recommendations on procedures for preventing similar situations in the future,” said Busby.
Among its conclusions, the report states that not all the provisions of the Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials (CIFTA) had been observed, and that this contributed to the diversion. The report also concludes that the criminal activities of international arms traffickers represent a threat that warrants a coordinated response from the Hemisphere.
The Assistant Secretary General said that the General Secretariat of the OAS would do everything it could to ensure that the report contributes significantly to strengthening arms control mechanisms in force in the Hemisphere, through the application of the report’s recommendations to member states.
The report was prepared in response to a request from the foreign ministers of Nicaragua, Panama, and Colombia, made on May 8, 2002, in which they asked the OAS to investigate the circumstances surrounding the export of a shipment of weapons and ammunition which originated in Nicaragua in November 2001, and which was later diverted to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a terrorist paramilitary organization.
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