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.
In a declaration approved by acclamation today during its regular session, the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) reaffirmed its support for the government and people of Haiti following the earthquake that devastated the country on January 12.
The full text of the declaration may be read here.
The declaration reads that “it is essential to support the efforts of the Haitian authorities to maintain political stability, democracy, good governance and the rule of law, and to strengthen institutions, and promote socioeconomic development.”
Furthermore, it specifies that the OAS “will support, upon their request, the Haitian authorities in their efforts to promote dialogue with all the sectors in society to address the relevant political, social and economic issues.”
The declaration adds that the OAS will continue to collaborate and mobilize whatever resources are needed to support recovery and reconstruction efforts, in collaboration with other regional and financial organizations, always “on the basis of the priorities established by the Haitian Government” and “in full respect for the sovereignty of Haiti.”
The declaration, drafted by all delegations, was formally proposed to the Permanent Council by the Representative of Haiti, Ambassador Duly Brutus, who reiterated his gratefulness to the Member States for the support they have offered since the earthquake. “Haiti is moved by this wave of solidarity,” he said.
The proposal was co-sponsored by Ambassador Virgilio Alcántara, of the Dominican Republic, who highlighted the “immediate and appropriate” response of the OAS and its authorities, who with “speed and effectiveness” headed “the mobilization of the agencies of the inter-American system” and in general “did the right thing in a timely way.”
The representatives of Panama, Dominican Republic, United States of America, Mexico, Guatemala, Canada, Brazil, Jamaica (on behalf of CARICOM), Chile, Nicaragua, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela also took the floor to express their support for the declaration.