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.
Message of the OAS General Secretariat on World Water Day 2022
March 22, 2022
For more than 60 years, the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States has promoted an agenda that focuses on water as an element of development, cooperation, stability, and peace. More than 160 projects and close to US$1 billion mobilized throughout the Americas have been promoted for these purposes. These efforts have contributed to the generation of knowledge on surface and groundwater resources (invisible water) in the hemisphere. They have also facilitated the emergence and consolidation of forums for dialogue in which the member states of the Organization decide how to manage their shared water resources in pursuit of sustainable development, human rights, and the well-being of the women and men of the Americas.
The OAS developed the first identification, mapping, characterization and management of 73 transboundary aquifer systems in the Americas. Through the efforts of the Organization and its partners, the region has a preliminary assessment of the hemisphere's transboundary aquifers, as well as an integrated knowledge of the legal and institutional framework for their management, and their socioeconomic, environmental and climatic reality. This has made it possible to have a regional strategy for evaluating and managing transboundary aquifers in our hemisphere.
The Organization's work has made invisible waters visible and promoted their immeasurable value within the regional agenda, due to their capacity to promote economic development, water security, food security and resilience to climate change. It has also advocated for knowledge and information to be disseminated and used in decision making and project formulation. Despite the Organization's contributions, making groundwater visible and strengthening political and technical agendas around it is a long-term task. We still lack precise knowledge about their status in terms of quality and quantity, due to the challenges faced by geological sciences and technology, a challenge that makes it difficult to promote new and better strategies for their management.
Our commitments will continue to focus on promoting best practices in transboundary aquifer management, reporting on advances in science and technology, and continuing to support member states' efforts to understand, manage, appreciate and highlight the value of the invisible waters of the Americas.
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