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.
Message of the Secretary General on World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
July 30, 2021
On this World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, my heart goes out to the victims and survivors of this crime. No one has the right to exploit anyone for any reason whatsoever; especially, in periods such as the health crisis caused by Covid-19, in which the world population is in a state of greater vulnerability.
The OAS member states, during the 6th Meeting of National Authorities on Trafficking in Persons, approved a series of recommendations under the title “Challenges in the fight against trafficking in times of pandemic” and recalled that the countries of origin, transit and destination of the victims of human trafficking should continue to work on the development of public policies, prevention programs, identification, assistance, protection, recovery, voluntary repatriation and reintegration, in a coordinated manner and using a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach, focused on victims and sensitive to the effects of trauma, taking into account gender, sexual diversity, age, disability, language and culture, without neglecting the safety of the surviving victims, and respecting their human rights.
Regarding the persecution of criminal organizations dedicated to human trafficking, countries are urged to strengthen operational contacts for the expeditious exchange of information and, as far as possible, intelligence that allows for direct and timely communication between member states to contribute to the investigation of the crime of trafficking in persons, as well as to identify its modus operandi.
The recommendations also advocate the adoption of policies and measures that include the use of money and funds confiscated from trafficking networks to strengthen the capacities of institutions working on human trafficking and the justice sector and that promote parallel financial investigation of illicit monetary or financial flows arising from the crime of human trafficking, with a view to tracing, freezing and confiscating the product acquired through this crime.
It is my hope that these recommendations, as they resonate throughout the Americas, can be transformed into concrete acts, so that more people can be protected and that impunity for the crime of trafficking in persons ceases to be a reality.
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