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 CONTINUES ELECTION FOR SECRETARY GENERAL MAY 2
April 11, 2005
The 34 members of the Organization of American States (OAS) will meet again on May 2 to continue the process of electing a new Secretary General for the hemispheric organization, after five rounds of voting today repeatedly produced a tie between the two candidates—Chile’s Interior Minister José Miguel Insulza, and Mexico’s Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez.
Insulza and Derbez emerged with 17 votes each during five rounds of voting that took place at OAS headquarters in Washington, where the foreign ministers and other heads of delegation met to vote.
The thirtieth special session of the OAS General Assembly, chaired by Panama’s First Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs Samuel Lewis Navarro, announced the new election date of May 2 after the heads of delegation met and so decided following the repeated vote tie. Under Article 74 of the General Assembly rules of procedure, if no candidate is elected after two additional rounds of voting—that were held this afternoon—the election would resume as determined by the delegations.
Lewis Navarro concluded the session after thanking the delegations for placing confidence in him and in his country to preside over the meeting. He also thanked everyone for actively participating.
OAS Acting Secretary General Luigi Einaudi, meanwhile, thanked the foreign ministers and the heads of delegation for their participation and underscored the candidates’ qualifications and participation of the countries in a process he described as “reflecting clearly the organization’s potential and its role in the quest for hemispheric consensus.” He said today’s process attested to the vibrant democracy that is at work in the hemisphere, and expressed his pride in the free and open process that took place.