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.
A high level mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) will travel to Ecuador today. The OAS Permanent Council last Friday approved Resolution 880, encouraging “all political, social, and economic sectors in Ecuador to strengthen governance and ensure full respect for democratic order, the constitutional framework, and the rule of law, through dialogue and constructive participation.”
The mission – made up of the Chair of the Permanent Council, Ambassador Alberto Borea of Peru; the OAS Acting Secretary General, Ambassador Luigi R. Einaudi; and representatives of sub-regional groups – will hold a series of meetings in order “to work with officials of that country and with all sectors of Ecuadorian society in their effort to strengthen democracy,” as the Permanent Council resolved.
The Ambassadors to the OAS who will participate in the visit are: Esteban Tomic, of Chile; Bayney Karran, Guyana; Salvador Rodezno, Honduras; Jorge Chen, Mexico; and Jorge Valero, Venezuela. The Alternate Representative of the United States to the OAS, Timothy Dunn, and Canada’s Ambassador to Ecuador, Brian Oak, will also participate.
The diplomatic mission will meet with representatives of the government and political parties, as well as with representatives of the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, the Catholic Church, unions, indigenous groups and others.
“This visit will seek to gather the points of view of different sectors, so that the conclusions of the mission can help to strengthen the efforts of the Ecuadorian people and authorities in building a strengthened democracy through dialogue, Ambassador Einaudi said.
It is expected that the mission, which will return to Washington on Saturday, will report to the Permanent Council sometime next week.
The decision to send the mission was made in accordance with Article 18 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter and in keeping with an invitation issued by a delegation of Ecuador during a special session of the Permanent Council dedicated to Ecuador. The resolution adopted by consensus also refers to the OAS Charter, noting that one of the Organization’s essential purposes is “to promote and consolidate representative democracy, with due respect for the principle of nonintervention.”