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.
LEO ROWE FUND PROPOSES TO EXPAND STUDENT LOAN MANDATES
April 16, 2004
The Organization of American States (OAS) student loan program, the Leo S. Rowe Pan American Fund, today formally presented a proposal seeking to expand its mandate so that recipients of its loans can study in the United States as well as in other countries.
Founded in 1948 with an endowment from Dr. Leo Stanton Rowe, who from 1920 until he died in 1946 served as Director General of the Pan American Union—the forerunner to the OAS—the Fund provides loans, as Dr. Rowe’s will stipulated, to students from Latin America and the Caribbean to pursue higher-education studies in the United States. Recipients are committed to return to their countries at the conclusion of their studies in order to share the benefits of their studies with their societies.
Rowe Fund Technical Secretary Dr. Manuel Metz presented details of the proposals during a breakfast briefing. The new proposal is part of a four-pronged initiative that has already begun with expansion of the Supplementary Guaranty Sub-Fund; promotion of the use of institutional guarantors; and the establishment of a network of beneficiaries.
Chairperson of the Rowe Fund Committee, St. Lucia’s Ambassador to the OAS Sonia Johnny, emphasized the need for more awareness of the Fund, for better geographic distribution of loans and a wider range of opportunities for students from Latin America and the Caribbean to pursue higher education in other countries. She reported at the same time steady progress in the gender balance, notably with the elimination of the gender gap in loan distributions between female and male students over the last three years.
OAS Secretary General César Gaviria restated the member states’ commitment to working together to stimulate prosperity. According to Gaviria, “by increasing the number of Rowe Fund beneficiaries throughout the continent, the Fund would strengthen its contribution to the hemispheric efforts geared towards reaching our common goals of combating poverty, promoting social development and advancing democratic governance.”
By 2003, the Leo Rowe Fund had disbursed nearly 6,000 interest-free loans amounting to US$24.5 million (in 2003 dollars).
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