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.
Brazil: OAS Secretary General Urges Institutional Stability of Democracy and Continuation of “Operação Lava Jato”
March 18, 2016
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, today said “in Brazil the main political and legal responsibility is the stability of the institutions and ensuring the fullest exercise of democracy.”
Almagro said he has “the greatest respect for President Dilma Rousseff, who has maintained a clear commitment to institutional transparency and has defended the social achievements made by her country.”
“At this moment her courage and honesty are essential tools for the preservation and strengthening of the rule of law,” he added.
The OAS leader said “her constitutional mandate must be ensured, in accordance with the Constitution and the laws, by all the powers of the state and all the institutions of the country, and any undermining of her authority should be avoided, wherever it may come from.”
Secretary General Almagro added that “it is imperative that the ongoing investigation known as ´Operação Lava Jato´ continue.”
The investigation has led to the arrest of 133 people, among them business people of the stature of Marcelo Odebrecht, Zwi Skornicki and Jose Carlos Bumlai, and involves 16 companies, among them Camargo Correa, OAS, UTC, Odebrecht, Mendes Junior, Engevix, Queiroz Galvao, Iesa and Galvao Engenharia, and politicians from various parties, among them PP, PT, PMDB, PSDB and PTB.
“The rule of law demands that we are all responsible and equal before the law. No one, and I mean no one, is above the law,” emphasized Almagro.
“On the other hand, no judge is above the law they must apply and the Constitution that guarantees their work. Democracy cannot be the victim of opportunism, but must be sustained by the force of its ideas and by ethics,” he concluded.
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