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 OAS LECTURE SERIES WILL BOOST PROMOTION OF DEMOCRACY
ACROSS THE AMERICAS
January 21, 2005
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will be at the Organization of American States (OAS) headquarters next Tuesday, January 25, to keynote the inaugural Lecture Series of the Americas, and will share his perspectives on “The Promise and Peril of Democracy.” The one-hour Lecture begins at 3:00 p.m. Washington Time.
The newly-created monthly hemispheric conference stems from a Summit of the Americas mandate in which the hemisphere’s heads of state and government called for “effective, practical and compassionate solutions for the problems that confront our societies.”
Enshrined in both the OAS Charter and the Inter-American Democratic Charter, democracy features prominently on the inter-American agenda as a priority issue for the hemispheric organization. This first Lecture is part of a series of programs and activities called for in the Inter-American Democratic Charter “to promote democratic principles and practices and strengthen a democratic culture in the Hemisphere.”
Based on an initiative of Peru’s Permanent Mission to the OAS, the Organization’s Permanent Council established the Lecture Series as part of activities “designed to provide the peoples of the Americas with the best options for solving the problems that beset them. The OAS and the San Martín de Porres University of Peru signed the agreement establishing the Lecture Series of the Americas, at OAS headquarters last December 15.
Irene Klinger, Director of the OAS Department of Communications and External Relations and Coordinator of the Lecture Series of the Americas program, explained that a total of 12 conferences will be held this year, covering major topics besides democracy—such as human rights, hemispheric security and combating poverty.
Other speakers slated to keynote subsequent Lectures include Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) President Enrique Iglesias; International Criminal Court President Phillipe Kirsch; and 1992 Nobel Laureate for Literature Derek Walcott of Saint Lucia.
The inaugural Lecture, which Jimmy Carter will keynote, will be transmitted live by radio, television and Internet throughout the Americas.