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.
According to Guatemala's Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), the Hemisphere's democratic systems are facing new threats, but Guatemala is satisfied with OAS efforts to combat terrorism, drug trafficking and corruption.
Delivering his first address to the Permanent Council, Ambassador Víctor Hugo Godoy Morales declared today that President Alfonso Portillo's administration would continue supporting moves to strengthen the OAS "to be a catalyst and play a role in upholding democracies around the Americas" while consolidating itself as a forum for dialogue about the economic and social problems facing the region.
Lauding the OAS' role in helping to bolster democratic systems and in resolving institutional crises in several countries, Ambassador Godoy Morales said corruption "undermines the very foundations of government by making it impossible for the state to properly respond to citizens' demands for minimum standards of living." He said action to control this threat to democracy, in the public sector and private sector alike, remains a top priority for the Guatemalan government.
The Ambassador reiterated his government’s support for the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism and the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), noting that “coordinated effort based as much on a recognition of shared responsibility as on the principles of cooperation and solidarity among states is the only way to achieve positive results.”
After his presentation, Ambassador Godoy Morales assumed the chairmanship of the OAS Permanent Council, which he will lead until March 31.