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 General Secretariat Commemorates 130th Anniversary of Inter-American System
October 2, 2019
The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (GS/OAS) today commemorated the 130th anniversary of the Inter-American System, the oldest international institutional system in the world.
Exactly 130 years ago, on October 2, 1889, the First American International Conference of American States began in Washington, DC, in which 18 American States participated and began to build what would become the Inter-American System. In that First Conference - a precursor to the current OAS General Assemblies -, the States agreed to establish an International Union of American Republics, which was later transformed into the Pan American Union and then into the Organization of American States (OAS) .
The Inter-American System has been and continues to be a set of international institutions that exist based on principles and not political situations. That is why it has lasted through time, unlike other experiments in regional multilateral organization around the world.
This history of exceptionalism in international relations shows the tendency and natural vocation of the Western Hemisphere for basic principles of peace, cooperation, mutual understanding, integration, and the creation of norms and mechanisms of international law that enforce them in practice. For the Americas, the liberal international order began before the rest of the world, and we have been building and strengthening it on the foundations created in October 1889, shortly after the wars of independence, civil wars and struggles for the construction of the new free states.
The future of the Inter-American System must pay daily tribute to the weight of this history. The pillars of democracy, human rights, development and security will continue to guide the work of the OAS, striving to be close to the needs and suffering of the people in the 35 member states. In particular, it must be on the side of the people who are victims of the dictatorships and the authoritarian regimes, which have no place in the Inter-American System.
After 130 years, the Inter-American System is stronger than ever, more relevant than ever, more involved in the issues that matter to the people than ever and is the greatest symbol of humanist multilateralism in the world.
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