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.
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today agreed to convene an Extraordinary General Assembly on Friday, March 22, with the aim of completing the process of reflection on the Functioning of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to strengthen the Inter-American System of Human Rights (ISHR).
The Assembly will consider proposals submitted by the Council, which will emanate from the meetings that have been held and will continue to be held by the permanent body with the Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CorteIDH) and civil society organizations, as well their own internal debates.
The event on March 22 will conclude a process which began at the General Assembly of El Salvador, in June 2011, with the creation of the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Council which presented its report of recommendations January 2012. Subsequently, the General Assembly held in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in June 2012, instructed the Permanent Council to complete its work in this area before the end of the first trimester of 2013. To meet the objective, the Council adopted a Work Plan in September 2012, which is currently in its third phase, entitled "Preparation of a report for the consideration of the General Assembly."
In today's session, the Permanent Council began to discuss the concrete timetable of meetings leading up to the Extraordinary General Assembly on March 22, based on a working paper presented by the Chair of the body. The discussion will continue at future meetings of the Council.
During the meeting, the delegations of Bolivia, the United States, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Venezuela, Canada, Mexico, Nicaragua, Chile, Colombia, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay, Argentina, Haiti, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay all spoke; as well as the OAS Assistant Secretary General, Albert Ramdin; and the Executive Secretary of the IACHR, Emilio Álvarez Icaza.
Permanent Council members expressed sympathy and solidarity with Brazil over the tragedy in a nightclub in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, which left more than two hundred young people dead. The Permanent Representative of Guyana, Ambassador Bayney R. Karran, who led the Council in the absence of the Chair (Nicaragua) and Vice Chair (Barbados), spoke on behalf of the institution to “express our deepest sympathies to the people and the government of Brazil for the loss of over 230 lives, most of whom were young students. Our hearts and our prayers go to their families.”
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.