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 Organization of American States (OAS) and the People’s Republic of China signed today a cooperation agreement. The Agreement establishes a China-OAS Cooperation Fund, through which China will contribute US $1 million for a period of five years. The Agreement—which promotes international cooperation projects designed to foster political stability and the economic and social development of the OAS Member States—takes effect today.
Projects to benefit from the agreement signed by China’s Permanent Observer to the OAS Ambassador Yang Jiechi, and OAS Acting Secretary General, Ambassador Luigi R. Einaudi, include the recently-inaugurated monthly Lecture Series of the Americas; a joint training course on gender and peace-building by the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) and the Department of Democratic and Political Affairs’ Office for the Prevention and Resolution of Conflict; a video game project of the Inter-American Children’s Institute; Américas Magazine; a meeting on arms trafficking; and the OAS’ Art Museum of the Americas. In addition, the Chinese government has pledged four scholarships per year for nationals of OAS countries to study Chinese.
With the establishment of this Cooperation Fund, which Ambassador Yang Jiechi said “coincides with the initiation of the Chinese traditional Lantern Festival symbolizing happiness,” the Chinese government was stressing the great importance it attaches to the OAS as the premier Western Hemisphere organization
Ambassador Einaudi welcomed the agreement and the Chinese contribution, and expressed his appreciation for the support, emphasizing “the significance the OAS attaches to its cooperative relationship with the government of the Peoples Republic of China.” He noted the impressive range of OAS programs to which China has committed with this initial package of US$140,000.
Einaudi added that, “this new relationship of cooperation is an important one, because we live in a world where globalization has produced openness, progress and at the same time vulnerabilities, which require that regional organizations like the OAS play an important role.” The support of China is crucial in this respect, he said.
OAS permanent observer status was granted to the People’s Republic of China last May. The signing ceremony was one of Ambassador Yang Jiechi’s last official duties before bidding farewell as Permanent Observer to the OAS and Ambassador to the United States.
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