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.
OAS Participates in Inauguration of World Forum on Consumer Product Security
February 28, 2012
The Director of the Department of Social Development and Employment of the Organization of American States (OAS), Evelyn Jacir de Lovo, who intervened as principal orator at the inaugural ceremony of the 19th Annual Meeting and Training Symposium of the International Consumer Product Health and Security Organization (ICPHSO), highlighted that in today’s world “because we live in a dynamic and constantly changing market, the issue of consumer product security and its impact on health should be addressed through global and coordinated initiatives.”
In her presentation at said event, being held in Orlando, Florida, from February 28 to March 2, the OAS official highlighted the need to have “an urgent multisectorial and global response for the security of products and the health of consumers.” Also, she offered an overview of the current situation in the hemisphere and praised efforts developed by OAS Member State in recent years on the subject, among them the implementation of the Safe and Healthy Consumption for the Americas Network (RCSS), which constitutes the first inter-American effort to contribute to the creation and spread of safe practices of consumer products in the region; and the projection in the region of an Inter-American System of Rapid Alerts.
The RCSS arose as a result of the commitment of the OAS Member States with the effective guardianship of the rights of consumers, and the promotion of safe consumption. The Network is coordinated by the OAS Department of Social Development and Employment in partnership with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and has as its main objective to contribute to the effective exercise of democracy, to guarantee the wellbeing and health of people through informed consumption and the freedom to elect safe services and goods.
The ICPHSO Annual Symposium is recognized as one of the most prominent events for professionals in the area of product consumer safety around the world. It serves as a channel to spread current information in the field of product consumer safety, and brings together all the key actors involved in the subject, including regulators, retailers, manufacturers, consumers, test normalization organizers, researchers, lawyers, and consultants, among others.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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