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 his remarks, he renewed Mexico’s commitment to strengthen human rights, democracy and legal cooperation and fight corruption in the Americas during his term in office. “The most pressing challenge before the Permanent Council, and the OAS as a whole, is certainly the situation in Haiti, although equally important is the follow-up to commitments to support the Colombian government’s process to demobilize illegally armed groups, as well as the Organization’s engagement in Venezuela,” Ruiz Cabañas said.
He identified as a major agenda item of his term in office the preparations for the upcoming OAS General Assembly that will be held in Quito, Ecuador, next June, when the hemisphere’s Foreign Ministers will hear progress reports on mandates from last year’s General Assembly session. The Quito Assembly will also elect a new Secretary General, for the 2004-2009 period. Among challenges he said he would face as Permanent Council Chairman was “charting creative courses for OAS action on other challenges.”
The Mexican diplomat said he would also represent the Organization at meetings of ministers of justice as well as women’s affairs and social development, and meetings with the hemisphere’s parliamentarians and representatives of civil society.
Ruiz-Cabañas succeeded his Canadian counterpart, Ambassador Paul Durand, whom he praised for ably leading the Permanent Council for the past three months. Durand reviewed his own period as Chairman, saying it was marked by an extremely busy agenda that included such important issues as the situations in Colombia, Haiti and Venezuela.
Also in attendance at the ceremony were OAS Secretary General César Gaviria, several member state Ambassadors, and other officials from Permanent Missions and the General Secretariat.
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