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 Member States Agree on Recommendations to Combat Transnational Organized Crime
July 2, 2021
The member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) participated on June 23 and 24 in the III Meeting of National Authorities on Transnational Organized Crime (RANDOTIII), in which they agreed on a series of recommendations to combat transnational organized crime at the hemispheric level.
The approved document recommends 18 actions for member states and 7 more for the OAS General Secretariat, among them the following:
Adopt a hemispheric strategy against transnational organized crime.
Call on the Network of National Contact Points on transnational organized crime, to promote and foster cooperation among member states to implement the Hemispheric Plan of Action against Transnational Organized Crime, through the periodic exchange of information and practices, as needed, and shared access to training and technology solutions to combat transnational organized crime activities.
Urge national authorities, points of contact, and law enforcement agencies to collaborate with international allied entities, academic institutions, the private sector, civil society, survivors and other entities to fight transnational organized crime in accordance with the objectives and purposes of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its complementary protocols on Trafficking in Persons, Smuggling of Migrants and Illicit Trafficking in Firearms, Parts, Components and Ammunition, as well as the Hemispheric Plan of Action Against Transnational Organized Crime.
Request that the Department against Transnational Organized Crime (DDOT) continue to provide specialized training and technical assistance to member states that request it, in areas such as special investigative techniques, parallel financial investigations, joint investigations, and asset forfeiture and management, aimed at developing police capacities to effectively combat transnational organized crime.
The complete document, as well as the rest of the information regarding the meeting, can be found on the event's website: www.oas.org/en/sms/dtoc/randot/2021/