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.
AT BREAKFAST MEETING, OAS REACHES OUT TO PERMANENT OBSERVERS
February 4, 2008
Meeting with Permanent Observers over breakfast today, Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General José Miguel Insulza touted the economic growth, relative stability and other positive developments in the Americas, despite lingering challenges in certain domains.
“The region had not been growing. Now it is growing,” the Secretary General told the group of some 36 Permanent Observers and representatives from countries and organizations that enjoy observer status with the Western Hemisphere organization. “I am very optimistic,” he added.
Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin accompanied the Secretary General, as did Director of the Department of External Relations Irene Klinger, who moderated the session on “Assessing the Americas.”
Insulza cited UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)data confirming the significant growth of the past five years as compared to the prior two decades that had seen very little growth. Moreover, Insulza explained, the region is no longer dogged by problems such as the civil wars that had plagued Central America, nor by the dictatorships that characterized much of the previous period.
Despite this upbeat outlook, Insulza underscored persistent problems and concerns around poverty and inequality, crime and violence, drug trafficking and human trafficking, governance, energy, and environmental degradation, among others.
Secretary General Insulza further explained the challenges of good governance, as well as the impatience among segments of the hemisphere’s citizenry demanding solid public policies that deliver better health care and redress inequities in income distribution.
Both Insulza and Ramdin thanked the Permanent Observers for their crucial and ongoing support for OAS programs, renewing the invitation for them to attend and participate in OAS meetings and forums such as the Permanent Council meetings and General Assembly sessions.
Praising success stories represented by OAS activities and programs, the Permanent Observers emphasized their respective governments’ interests in further developing these relationships. They also sought further details on aspects of the hemispheric organization’s programming of particular interest—related to such issues as migration and hemispheric integration—while some indicated their governments’ interest in expanding collaboration with the OAS.
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