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.
GUYANA’S ENVOY REITERATES CALLS FOR
EFFECTIVE ACTION ON DEVELOPMENT FINANCING
April 3, 2003
Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States, Ambassador Odeen Ishmael, has called for effective action on development financing, to tackle problems facing especially the poor in the Americas.
“We in this Hemisphere will have to—as a matter of urgency—begin to identify effective means of applying the much-touted Monterrey Consensus,” Dr. Ishmael stressed in his first intervention before the Permanent Council since assuming the Chair on April 1, his second time presiding over the OAS decision-making body. “Talking about it and glorifying it at numerous conferences will do nothing to ease the plight of the poor in our countries. Applying it is what will bring beneficial results.”
Other priorities he highlighted included finding a solution to Haiti’s political crisis. He suggested that if the parties concerned can name their representatives to Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council, “we may be able to see a positive shift from the stalemate that is currently being experienced.” He expressed the hope that the OAS and CARICOM will continue “with some urgency to help promote political dialogue and compromise” to move the process forward.
The Guyanese diplomat underlined the importance of democracy and democratic governance as “ideas and practices which continue to gain attention and concern in all our countries,” and hailed host government Chile’s decision to propose it as the focus of the heads of delegation dialogue at the upcoming OAS General Assembly. He cautioned against complacency with respect to democracy. “There are forces which make threats against freely elected governments and place all kinds of impediments to prevent such governments from carrying out their development programs….. Only if all forces respect the results of those elections can a fledgling or developing democracy be allowed to nurture and embed its roots in the society.”
Ambassador Ishmael signaled the need to further develop cooperation between the Hemisphere and Africa, pointing to areas of mutual interest such as development, democracy and democratic development and managing the HIV/AIDS crisis.
Facebook
Twitter
Facebook
Twitter