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.
EXPERTS AT OAS MEETING EXAMINE PROGRESS IN FIGHTING CORRUPTION
March 28, 2005
Anti-corruption experts are meeting at the Organization of American States’ (OAS) headquarters in Washington to discuss strategies to deny safe haven to corrupt officials and corrupting individuals. Also on the agenda for the two-day meeting that opened Monday are such key topics as confiscation of ill-gotten gain and property as well as cooperation on extradition.
Chairman of the OAS Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs, Peru’s Ambassador Alberto Borea, repeated the call for the hemisphere’s 800 million citizens to boldly denounce corruption and find ways to unite against this scourge. Borea urged the experts to be resolute in their efforts to prevent corruption from continuing with impunity. “Corruption with power is pernicious and produces inequality,” he argued.
Walter Hoflisch Cueto, Head of Peru’s Financial and Strategic Unit, is chairing the meeting, for which Gladys Young, from the Attorney General’s Department of Jamaica, was elected as Vice Chair. Citing his own country’s experience, Hoflisch Cueto noted that after ten years of corruption, corrupt individuals are now even mounting their own defense using the proceeds of their ill-gotten gain.
Representatives of the OAS Department of Legal Affairs and Services, including Jorge García-Gonzalez, said the financial sector needs stronger preventive measures and more joint effort to prevent and combat money laundering. He called for more collaboration with such international institutions as the United Nations, the Group of Eight (G-8) and the Commonwealth.
The experts speaking on assets confiscation include, Dimitri Vlassis, a UN crime prevention and criminal justice expert; Luis Vargas Valdivia, former Special Prosecutor of Peru; Stephen Baker, international expert in assets recovery; Bill Gilmore, Dean of the University of Edinburgh’s Law School; and Veronica Wright, Legal Counsel with the Commonwealth Secretariat.
Those contributing to the discussion on denying safe haven and extradition of officials include Pierre-Gilles Bélanger, Advisor to the Canadian Ministry of Justice, and Kathleen Hamann, anti-corruption and good governance expert. Civil society was represented by Miguel Ángel Peñailillo, of Transparency International.
Before concluding their meeting, the experts will present specific recommendations, in keeping with the Action Plan that the states parties to the Inter-American Convention against Corruption had approved in July 2004, in Managua, Nicaragua.
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