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 Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza said progress of the OAS Mission to Support the Peace Process in Colombia is “significant” to date. He called on the member countries to continue supporting the Organization’s efforts towards overcoming the challenges in order to secure a lasting peace in that country.
“The challenge of Colombia is perhaps the most urgent one this Organization faces,” the Secretary General stated as he presented the sixth quarterly report on the Mission to the 34 countries of the Permanent Council today. It is important to “recognize the complexity of any peace process, and in particular, the case if Colombian where there has been more than 50 years of conflict”, he added.
Insulza thanked the Member States, the observer countries, and the international organizations that have collaborated with this initiative, and said that thanks to their support, the Mission is “expanding its personnel for verification tasks by 100%,” with the hiring of more than 20 officers. He also noted that over the coming weeks, “the Mission will realize its goal of having 10 regional offices and more than 100 officers.”
The Secretary General reported that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) recently visited Bogotá, an indication that “human rights are fundamental to the Organization’s work in Colombia.”
The report presented today includes a detailed summary of the work carried out by OAS experts in the areas of “verifying the cease-fire and cessation of hostilities, verifying demobilization and disarmament, verifying that the armed units have effectively been disbanded and reincorporated into civilian life, and following up on the individual verification or reintegrated combatants.”
For his part, Ambassador Alvaro Tirado Mejia, Representative of Colombia to the OAS, noted that the “process of demobilizing the armed groups is nearing its final phase.” He said that “the report provides an encouraging and optimistic overview of the tremendous work being carried out in my country.”
“Under the Secretary General’s leadership, the international community and in particular the Americas have provided an important political and economic support to the Mission,” added Tirado Mejia.
During the meeting chaired by Ambassador Sonia Johnny of Saint Lucia, representatives from several nations expressed their support to the work of the OAS in Colombia.
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