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.
FORMER PRESIDENT OF EL SALVADOR CITES
TACKLING EXTREME POVERTY IN REGION AS PRESSING ISSUE
January 28, 2005
Former Salvadorian President Francisco Flores, one of the candidates seeking to become Secretary General of the Organisation of American States (OAS), outlined his broad vision stressing the urgency of such OAS agenda issues as combating extreme poverty, spurring economic growth and creation of opportunity for prosperity, and protecting society’s most vulnerable.
Flores told a special sitting of the OAS Permanent Council Thursday that to effectively combat poverty, member states must be able to deliver on certain basic needs like roads, energy and telecommunications. “Without such investments, prosperity will remain illusive, and there will be no way out of poverty,” he warned, calling the lack of widely-available and affordable telecommunications a form of isolation.
After his Foreign Affairs Minister, Francisco Laínez, introduced him Mr. Flores told the member state ambassadors that, burdened with debt and high-cost education and health-care systems, developing countries need resources to provide their citizens the necessary infrastructure to generate development opportunities.
Paraguay’s Ambassador Manuel María Cáceres chaired the Permanent Council meeting, where Mr. Flores further outlined his proposal for a regional, state-guaranteed system of incentives to enlist multilateral financing institutions, private banks, and aid donors in a regional development thrust. He argued, “This is the way to access fresh resources, allocate them where the need is greatest, and help provide developing states with the means to tackle the challenges that lie ahead.”
Flores applauded “the great credibility” he said the OAS enjoys with regard to priorities that include protecting freedoms by ensuring transparent electoral systems. He suggested, however, that in general the hemispheric body “must be better positioned at the center of the hemispheric debate.” That is the OAS’ greatest challenge—to restore its relevance and prestige, he argued.
Besides Mr. Flores, the official candidates for OAS Secretary General are Mexico’s Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez and Chile’s Interior Minister José Miguel Insulza. The Secretary General will be elected by the member states at a date that is yet to be determined.
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