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.
Presenting credentials at the Organization of American States (OAS), Colombia’s new Permanent Representative Horacio Serpa expressed confidence that the hemispheric body would continue efforts towards hemispheric integration while pursuing the objectives of the Inter-American Democratic Charter.
“I have come with a message from President Alvaro Uribe Vélez and the Colombian people, reaffirming our country’s commitment to democratic principles,” declared Serpa as he presented his accreditation letters to Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi on Monday.
The Assistant Secretary General praised Colombia’s crucial role in the OAS throughout the Organization’s history, and welcomed Serpa as representative of “a great country” in an OAS that is essentially a political forum resonating throughout the Americas.
Born in Bucaramanga, Santander Department, Ambassador Serpa holds a Ph.D. in law and political sciences. He was Minister of Culture and Minister of the Interior from 1994 to 1997 and was also a member and Chairman of the Central Political Committee and National Director of the Colombian Liberal Party, which he represented when he ran for President of Colombia in 1998 and 2002. Between 1988 and 1992 he was Attorney General as well as High Commissioner for Peace.
Horacio Serpa succeeds Humberto de la Calle as Colombia’s Permanent Representative to the OAS.