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 Permanent Council Adopted Resolution on the Situation in Nicaragua
May 21, 2019
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today approved a resolution on "the situation in Nicaragua" in which it reiterates "the concern of the inter-American community for the deterioration of democratic institutions and human rights in Nicaragua and its support for a peaceful solution to the political crisis in that country."
The resolution was approved with 20 votes in favor (Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, The Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, United States, Guyana, Haiti, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Saint Lucia, Uruguay and Venezuela), 3 votes against (Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Suriname) and 10 abstentions (Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Dominica, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica and Saint Kitts and Nevis). One country was absent from the vote (Trinidad and Tobago).
The document urges the parties "to further effective dialogue in good faith,” through the implementation by the Government of the following measures: the "unconditional release of all prisoners, by June 18th, 2019;" "allow the effective work of the IACHR and its mechanisms in Nicaragua, including the MESENI;” "initiate institutional measures necessary to ensure free, fair, transparent, and legitimate elections in accordance with international standards;" "ensure freedom of expression and the press, allow the exercise of the right to demonstrate peacefully, stop arbitrary detentions;" and "guarantee the return and safe stay, without reprisals, of all the people who were forced to leave Nicaragua as a result of the current crisis."
The Chief of Staff of the Secretary General, Gonzalo Koncke, said that "Nicaragua requires progress in terms of electoral reform, progress is needed to have fair, transparent elections, meeting standards of international observation. There is also a need for the greatest possible promotion and protection of human rights in the country, the release of political prisoners, the full restoration of the freedom of expression, there must be progress in the field of justice and reparation in the country, as well as the guarantees for the return of citizens who were forced to leave the territory. The return of MESENI and the IACHR to work in the country is also fundamental."
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