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.
Mexico and OAS to Hold Hemispheric Meeting against Transnational Organized Crime
February 27, 2012
The Organization of American States (OAS) will serve as the framework for the High-Level Hemispheric Meeting against Transnational Organized Crime convened by the Mexican government, to be held March 1st and 2nd, 2012, in Mexico City, and to be inaugurated by the President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón. The regional meeting will also feature the participation of OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, Mexico’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Ambassador Patricia Espinosa, and Minister Marisela Morales Ibáñez, the host country’s Attorney General, among other officials.
José Miguel Insulza assessed the importance of the thematic agenda of the Mexico gathering, noting that “transnational organized crime is the principal continental source of activities such as drug trafficking, the illicit trafficking of firearms and immigrants, human trafficking, money laundering, corruption, kidnapping, and cybercrimes.” He placed emphasis on the danger of the organization capabilities of transnational crime, adding that “when control of organized crime over neighborhoods, communities or broader geographical areas impedes or substitutes for the work of public institutions, we are before a full threat to democratic governance.”
The meeting in the Mexican capital will convene attorneys general and prosecutors from the countries of the Technical Group against Transnational Organized Crime (GTDOT), organized within the OAS with the purpose of elaborating concrete proposals to optimize the activities of governments against the organized crime phenomenon. It will be an important complement to the Meeting of Ministers of Justice or Attorneys General of the Americas (REMJA), also held in the framework of the hemispheric organization.
Among the issues to be discussed in Mexico City are the importance of effectively combating organized crime through legal and institutional modernization; progress in the region on penalizing criminal activities set in the Palermo Convention; and the strengthening of institutions in the fight against transnational organized crime in the Caribbean, among other things. The meeting will feature numerous brief presentations on various issues, followed by open dialogue between the delegations.
WHAT: High-Level Hemispheric Meeting against Transnational Organized Crime
WHEN: March 1st and 2nd, 2012
WHERE: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mexico City, Mexico
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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