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 Offers Haiti Office as Headquarters for Haiti’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
January 19, 2010
At a meeting of the Group of Friends of Haiti of the Organization of American States (OAS), OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin announced today that the OAS has offered its Office building in Haiti to the country’s government to temporarily house its Foreign Ministry, which lost its own building as a result of the earthquake. This arrangement will provide the Haitian government with the facilities and communication capacity to jumpstart its critical operations.
“The Haitian Foreign Ministry collapsed completely as a result of the earthquake, and they did not have space to work or meet,” Ambassador Ramdin said. “And so we decided to offer the OAS building, which is in relatively good shape, as the temporary headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the coming weeks or maybe months.”
The extraordinary session of the Group of Friends was convened to review the situation in Haiti following last week’s devastating earthquake and share information about emergency relief efforts, financial and humanitarian assistance and other aid currently provided to Haiti by the Inter-American System, regional governments, the European Union and others.
During the meeting, representatives of OAS Member States reported on their countries’ efforts to bring emergency relief, humanitarian and financial assistance to the government of Haiti and the victims of the earthquake, and urged coordination in all assistance efforts to Haiti, a call that was echoed by Ambassador Ramdin.
“Coordination is key,” Ambassador Ramdin said. “The reality has been we have not always deployed effective coordination mechanisms in the past years with regard to Haiti. I hope this crisis, this disaster, will bring us together in really coming up with the multi-layered coordination and consultation mechanisms that are badly needed to assist Haiti as effectively as possible.”
The Assistant Secretary General identified lack of transportation equipment, lack of security and problems with communication as the major challenges currently facing relief efforts in Haiti. He said the OAS is doing its utmost to support the Haitian government.
Ramdin also announced the death of one person employed by the OAS in Haiti as a result of the earthquake, and the disappearance of 48 others who have not yet been accounted for. He said 65 of 114 people employed by the OAS in Haiti have been so far accounted for.
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