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.
INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE DISCUSSING LINK BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
March 20, 2006
Legal issues related to the link between democracy and economic and social development are among highlights of issues as the Inter-American Juridical Committee opened its 68th regular session at the Organization of American States today, with Secretary General José Miguel Insulza in attendance.
“Our objective is to have the Inter-American Juridical Committee reflect the changing international reality and reconcile it with legal developments, to be better able to address current challenges,” the Committee’s President, Nicaraguan Mauricio Herdocia Sacasa, declared in opening the session, which runs until March 31.
Herdocia Sacasa said the current Inter-American Juridical Committee meeting is expected to have a significant impact on legal work being undertaken, including efforts towards a hemispheric convention against racism and discrimination. Other substantive issues he cited include the International Criminal Court, which he described as “a most typical issue.”
OAS Secretary General Insulza, in welcoming the Juridical Committee members, noted the particular timeliness of the meeting’s discussion of the link between democracy and economic and social development, as the finishing touch is being put on an OAS social charter. “Certainly, we would welcome as very important your opinion on the legal implications of the various options,” the Secretary General said.
Insulza touched on the special importance of the CJI meeting being held at OAS headquarters this year, which marks the centenary of the institution’s establishment. He also praised the Committee’s role in such issues as private international law, the right to information and the fight against racism and discrimination, and in organizing the annual course on international law in conjunction with the OAS Department of International Legal Affairs.
The Rio de Janeiro-based Inter-American Juridical Committee is one of the organs through which the OAS accomplishes its purposes. The Committee serves the OAS as an advisory body on juridical matters of an international nature and promotes the progressive development and the codification of international law. It also studies juridical problems related to the integration of the developing countries of the Hemisphere and, insofar as may appear desirable, the possibility of attaining uniformity in their legislation. It evolved out of the International Commission of Jurists, created by the Third International Conference of American States in 1906, which held its first meeting in 1912.