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.
OAS to Sponsor the Latin American Prize for Investigative Journalism
May 15, 2018
The Organization of American States (OAS) will sponsor the prestigious Latin American Journalism Research Award, organized by the Press and Society Institute (IPYS) and Transparency International (TI) since 2002.
This according to an agreement between the General Secretariat of the hemispheric institution and these two civil society organizations.
"It is a decision that demonstrates the commitment of the OAS to journalism that investigates corruption and human rights violations, sometimes under dictatorships and attacks by organized crime," said OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro, after a recent meeting with Ricardo Uceda, Executive Director of IPYS.
Almagro said the initiative is in line with the work of the Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) and the resolutions of the VIII Summit of the Americas held in Lima last month.
Soon an agreement will be signed to institutionalize the participation of the OAS. Uceda said the awards, with prizes of $10,000 to the winner, $5,000 to the second and third places, and diplomas for ten finalists, will continue to be decided by an independent jury. Uceda added that, in support for journalists covering organized crime, since 2018 the Latin American Prize for Investigative Journalism will be named Javier Valdez in homage to this exemplary journalist killed by drug traffickers in Mexico -- where more than one hundred reporters have died since 2000.
The Secretary General of the OAS will present the Prize in November in Bogotá, during the Latin American Conference of Investigative Journalism (COLPIN 2018). And next year in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, where COLPIN 2019 will be held. In this city Javier Valdez ran the weekly Riodoce, when he was killed on May 15, 2017.
In addition, the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Edison Lanza, announced an agreement with IPYS to reward the best articles making use of requests for access to public information, with distinctions that will be delivered annually in the COLPIN. "Investigative journalism plays a critical role in revealing facts of corruption, and in that context, the access to public information is an important useful tool for investigating irregularities," Lanza said.
With this new initiative, the OAS demonstrates its commitment to press freedom and the defense of independent journalism.
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