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.
ACCORDING TO CHILE’S NATIONAL DEFENSE MINISTER,
HEMISPHERE FACING GROWING THREATS AND CHALLENGES
January 28, 2003
Michelle Bachelet, Chile’s Minister of National Defense, has told delegates at the Organization of American States that with the twenty first century just beginning, the international system has entered a phase strongly characterized by globalization.
“Another problem the Hemisphere faces is the growing, very diverse and complex threat to states, societies and citizens,” she declared Tuesday at a meeting of the OAS Committee on Hemispheric Security, as she reported on the Fifth Conference of Ministers of Defense of the Americas, held in Santiago, Chile, last November 18 to 22.
Minister Bachelet was upbeat about the Hemisphere’s future, saying the countries of the Americas face a complex of risks, challenges and opportunities, notably in relation to security. “It is very difficult to find similar period marked by such high levels of cooperation, which—I am sure—will be expanded and deepened,” she added.
Noting the main political product of the Conference was the consensus reflected in the Santiago Declaration, she gave an overview of the main agreements stemming from the gathering of ministers, and argued that “the threats and challenges call for a comprehensive and multidimensional approach.” She said the Québec Declaration and the last OAS General Assembly, in Barbados, “made progress in that regard by introducing new language and by moving forward on a new concept of security.”
Several delegations welcomed the Chilean Defense Minister to the OAS and presented their views on the issue of hemispheric security. Chairman of the Committee on Hemispheric Security, Mexico’s Ambassador Miguel Ruiz Cabañas, touched on the evolution of the security agenda within the OAS, citing the Santiago Declaration as a guide for the Committee’s work.
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