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.
With the approval of all the documents submitted for voting by the member states, the 49th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) concluded today in Medellín, Colombia.
In the last plenary session, the Assembly approved resolutions on Venezuela and Nicaragua, among others. The documents approved by the General Assembly are or will be available here.
The OAS member states also re-elected as commissioners of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño (Panama) and Margaret May Macaulay (Jamaica), and elected as new members Edgar Stuardo Ralón Orellana (Guatemala) and Julissa Mantilla Falcón (Peru).
In the Inter-American Juridical Committee, José Antonio Moreno Rodríguez (Paraguay) was re-elected and Eric Patrick Rudge (Suriname) was elected.
In the Justice Center for the Americas, Daniel Petrone (Argentina) was re-elected and Maytrie Vydia Kuldip (Suriname) was elected.
In the Board of External Auditors, Martin Rubenstein (Canada) was elected by acclamation and the Permanent Council was entrusted with the election of another member before September 30, 2019.
In the Administrative Tribunal Pablo Sandonato de León (Uruguay) was elected by acclamation.
The member states of the OAS also approved the offer of The Bahamas to host the 50th General Assembly of the Organization in 2020.