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.
U.S. CONTRIBUTES A MAJOR BOOST FOR OAS EMERGENCY DE-MINING OPERATIONS IN COLOMBIA
March 7, 2008
United States government has given a major boost to the Organization of American States’ Comprehensive Action against Antipersonnel Mines program (AICMA, for its Spanish acronym)<, through a contribution of more than $715,000 for emergency humanitarian demining operations in Colombia.
The US contributions totaling $715,485 for 2008—and disbursed through the State Department’s Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement—will help provide support for national capacity-building in humanitarian de-mining operations, training, and mine-risk education.
Colombia’s need for emergency humanitarian mine-clearing operations stems from its more than 40-year old internal conflict that has left 31 of Colombia’s 32 departments contaminated by anti-personnel landmines. Current records indicate there are 6,674 victims to date—more than one-third of whom are children, according to the National Authority.
The OAS program has supported mine action activities throughout the Americas since 1991, and has seen the completion of projects in Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, and Suriname. With respect to Colombia, the OAS-AICMA program has provided support to the government through the Presidential Program for Mine Action (PPAICMA) since 2003.
OAS support to Colombian mine action activities has included the training of military minesweepers, leaders, and supervisors; establishment of a monitor group to ensure international standards; and implementation of projects for victim rehabilitation, vocational training, and social reintegration, among others.
In making the contribution, the U.S. government said its commitment to assist countries in “relieving human suffering” is reflected in its support to OAS mine action activities since the AICMA program’s inception in 1992.
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