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.
In his final address to the Permanent Council as Permanent Representative, Ambassador Godoy Morales stressed that “multilateralism must not give up on economic growth with equity, so as to deliver well-being to our peoples, not just to reduce poverty.”
He expressed as well his belief in democracy “and in a more humane capitalism” as well as in a revitalized and pro-active OAS. And, emphasizing the need to “strengthen our democracies from within so as to develop solid policies towards the outside,” the Ambassador noted that Western democracy has emerged finally as a model for realizing human and social potential. He observed, however, that a number of our present-day democracies are “low-intensity” democracies.
Political parties need to be renewed and strengthened, he continued, arguing that dignity must be restored to political activity as the avenue through which society comes together. “We must equip political parties to address citizens’ demands and incorporate new social actors,” he declared, noting the OAS’ Unit for the Promotion of Democracy (UPD) has a vital role to play in this issue.
Ambassador Godoy’s remarks followed commendations from his colleague ambassadors from the OAS member states, as well as from the Permanent Council Chairman, Canada’s Ambassador Paul Durand. Praising Godoy’s diplomacy in pursuing the noble objectives of the OAS—including chairing the Council immediately upon arrival at the Organization one year ago—Durand said the Guatemalan envoy had exercised the chairmanship with seriousness, frankness and professionalism.
Today’s Permanent Council session also expressed condolences, and the members stood for a minute of silence, in tribute to the late former President of Mexico, José López Portillo, who died yesterday. He had served as President from 1976 to 1982.
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