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.
He told member state delegates to the three-day meeting that the goal is that this process should “stand the test of historical judgment, empirical concerns and rigorous analysis that allows us to devise guidelines to ensure a permanent, pluralistic perspective of society,” adding that such a perspective could bring people together and enhance civic mindedness.
Meanwhile, Ambassador Eduardo Ferrero Costa of Peru, who chairs the OAS working group that convened the meeting, noted that the declaration represents “the will and desire of the states of the Americas and also of their indigenous peoples.”
He underscored the positive nature of the process, observing that thus far the dialogue has been frank, constructive, and based on good faith and a spirit of cooperation.
Representing the Caucus of Indigenous Representatives, Lotti Cunningham of Nicaragua’s Miskito community stressed that many of the rights covered under the American Declaration’s articles to be considered at this meeting “necessarily relate to indigenous peoples’ right to free and unconditional self-determination.” She touched as well on the importance of the fundamental principles of prior consent that is also free and informed. “These are inherent to our community,” she stated.
Working sessions of this meeting will focus on articles concerning cultural identity and organizational and political rights.
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