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 OAS MEETING, PERUVIAN FIRST LADY URGES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NOT TO DISAPPOINT MILLIONS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
February 24, 2003
Peru’s First Lady, Eliane Karp de Toledo, speaking today at an Organization of American States (OAS) conference in Washington, called on the international community not to disappoint the Hemisphere’s more than 40 million indigenous peoples who are expecting to see a hemispheric Declaration adopted to protect their rights.
Addressing a special session of the Working Group to Prepare the Draft American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Peruvian First Lady said she was encouraged by discussions between the states and the indigenous peoples, adding that “the challenge now before the OAS” is to approve the hemispheric Declaration.
She argued that this endeavor cannot be divorced from the war on poverty, “at this juncture in the history of the Americas when stability, security and consolidation of democracy cannot be achieved without tackling the structural problem of poverty and marginalization of millions of citizens.”
Describing the draft American Declaration as “a magnificent proposal,” the First Lady was optimistic that “important steps will be made to ensure the Declaration fully recognizes the right of indigenous peoples to their land, territories and natural resources in keeping with environmental promotion and protection.”
OAS Secretary General César Gaviria outlined steps taken since the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) first brought the issue to the OAS in March 1997. He said the Summits of the Americas have given strong support to the Declaration—a clear indication of its importance for our hemispheric agenda.”
According to Gaviria, the present climate of cooperation is conducive to completing the first phase and moving to the negotiation phase, “and this would produce a final version that could be presented to the General Assembly for approval next year.”
Gaviria said “over the last 15 years we have witnessed a change of attitude that has redefined the relationship of indigenous peoples, state and civil society.” He cited several countries of the Americas that “have made significant progress by establishing their societies as multinational and multicultural under the constitution.”
The Working Group, chaired by Peru’s Ambassador to the OAS, Eduardo Ferrero Costa, will consider various sections of the Declaration as they relate to social, economic and property rights, general provisions, human rights and the preamble. The experts’ meeting ends Friday.
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