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), through its General Secretariat, today signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands (RAMSAR) committing the two organizations to pursue joint activities that would advance their mutual interests.
The document was signed by Cletus Springer, Director of the OAS Department of Sustainable Development, on behalf of OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, and Anada Tiega, Secretary General of the Convention. The two parties reiterated that the MOC made sense because their respective institutions share similar conservation and management goals and have enjoyed positive cooperation in the past at an informal level. The ceremony was held at OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Joint activities to be undertaken under the MOC include: sharing data, knowledge and information relevant to biodiversity conservation of wetlands and sustainable management within the Americas, and the development and execution of joint projects related to the parties’ respective strategic plans and mandates.
The two parties also have agreed to make the signed document a “living agreement,” and to this end will convert it into a six-year Action Plan with clear milestones.
To learn more about the work of the OAS Department of Sustainable Development, please visit the OAS website at www.oas.org.