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.
The Organization of American States (OAS) today concluded its 52nd General Assembly, held this week in Lima, Peru.
In the last plenary session, the Assembly approved the Declaration of Lima "Together against inequality and discrimination," as well as resolutions on the situation in Nicaragua and Haiti, hemispheric initiatives to promote resilience in terms of comprehensive development, recovery and strengthening of inclusive and resilient health systems, the situation of food and nutritional security in the Americas, a resolution to increase and strengthen the participation of civil society and social actors in the activities of the OAS and in the process of Summits of the Americas, the priority role of the OAS in the development of telecommunications/information and communication technologies through the Inter-American Telecommunications Commission (CITEL), a declaration on the Peace Process in Colombia and a declaration of solidarity with the Argentine people in view of the assassination attempt suffered by the Vice President of the Argentine Republic.
All documents approved by the General Assembly are or will be available here.
In a vote held in person in Lima, Peru, within the framework of the same Assembly, the Member States elected Alejandro Alday González (Mexico), Julio José Rojas (Dominican Republic), and George Rodrigo Bandeira (Brazil) to the Inter-American Juridical Committee.
The member states also elected Nicolas Soler (Argentina) and Cecilia Barrios (Guatemala) to the Justice Studies Center of the Americas, María Cecilia Cáceres (Chile) to the OAS Administrative Tribunal, and Martin Rubenstein (Canada) to the Committee on Organization Audit.