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.
OAS Assistant Secretary General:"Collaboration on Security Issues More Important than Ever"
February 24, 2010
The Organization of American States (OAS), through its Secretariat for Multidimensional Security, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to strengthen cooperation activities in areas of transnational security, including the fight against the production, use and illegal trafficking of drugs; organized crime and terrorism, including human trafficking and the trafficking of firearms; money laundering; corruption and cybercrime, and other areas of mutual interest.
OAS Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin represented the hemispheric organization during a signing ceremony today at United Nations headquarters in New York City.
“More than ever before, countries around the world need to work together to address threats to the security and stability of nations,” Ramdin said. “We are facing increasingly sophisticated and intense criminal activity and other security threats made worse by the effects of an international economic crisis, the devastation wreaked by natural disasters and the vulnerability of states with weak institutions. The transnational nature of these threats calls for collaboration among governments, international organizations and law enforcement agencies more than ever before. That is why I am proud today that the OAS has once again reinforced its commitment to be a hemispheric leader in addressing these issues and strengthened its relationship with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.”
The OAS and UNODC have worked together for more than a decade on various projects and programs—including training courses and exchange of information and resources on various areas of mutual interest. This new strengthening of an established partnership will help the two supranational organizations exchange further knowledge, experience and resources in seeking to address issues of transnational security, and will improve their ability to effectively carry out their respective missions and responsibilities, minimize duplicative efforts and promote the optimization of resources in benefit of their common Member States in the Western Hemisphere.
The OAS Secretariat for Multidimensional Security advises the Organization’s General Secretariat and political bodies on all matters pertaining to hemispheric security. Its mission is to coordinate cooperation among OAS Member States to fight threats to national and citizen security.