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.
Statement by the Secretary General of the Organization of American States on Equitable Distribution of Vaccines
March 9, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic is the worst public health crisis the modern world has ever faced. It is deeply troubling that the member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) now account for almost half of the number of persons infected with the novel coronavirus globally, and a similar proportion of the people who have died worldwide.
The pandemic has also devastated the economies of the member states, particularly those that are highly dependent on external sources of income, such as tourism.
Unemployment has skyrocketed, poverty and inequality have increased, and investment has declined. The economic outlook is especially gloomy for Small Island Developing States which, by virtue of their size, produce a narrow range of goods and services that are also highly vulnerable to external shocks and natural disasters.
COVID-19 vaccines offer the prospect of supressing the virus and setting every nation on a path to both health and economic recovery. However, access to and distribution of the vaccines is not equal. Based on the current levels of limited vaccine availability and distribution, the pandemic will continue even longer for most of the world’s population, including those in Latin America and the Caribbean, depriving them of their right to life, health and livelihoods.
While I welcome the COVAX facility, led by the World Health Organization, which was designed to help developing countries to secure access to vaccines at affordable prices, I believe that COVAX needs more than pledges of financial support; it urgently needs delivery of the necessary funds to facilitate a fair supply and distribution of vaccines.
No country is safe until every country is safe. Therefore, I join the call for a massive scaling-up of vaccine production and for more affordable pricing to allow developing countries to secure vaccines and inoculate their people.
I also call on all States to facilitate the export, equal access, and equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, in accordance with international human rights obligations and the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.
The global pandemic requires a global response based on unity, solidarity, and multilateral cooperation, to ensure that all States have access to vaccines. The Americas, too, need a hemispheric response.
In this regard, I commit the OAS General Secretariat to work with our member states, the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) and international partners to formulate and implement solutions in the shortest possible time.
Increasing access to the Covid-19 vaccine in the Americas means increasing access to different rights in the Hemisphere such as the right to life, right to health, right to education, and right to sustainable livelihoods.
A hemispheric commitment is necessary to ensure the Americas actively embarks on the road towards post-Covid recovery and growth.