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.
Statement of OAS Secretary General regarding the Anniversary of the Murder of Monsignor Óscar Arnulfo Romero
March 24, 2010
“On a day like today, 30 years ago, with a single shot, a murderer took the life of Monsignor Óscar Arnulfo Romero Galdámez, while he presided over a service of the Eucharist in the Chapel of La Divina Providencia Hospital, at the exact moment when he was preparing the table to receive the Body of Christ. According to the Truth Commission that investigated the crimes committed during the Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992), Romero was murdered by members of a Death Squad.
“Today El Salvador and the entire world recall a man who spoke about injustice without ambiguities, and through his death his killers sought to silence his commitment to the most vulnerable and to the dignity of Salvadorans, but in fact he became a martyr and a universal figure of human rights.
“We value deeply the efforts of President Mauricio Funes, who has publicly recognized the State’s responsibility in the case, and has expressed his commitment to implement in good faith and as best as he can the recommendations the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has made to prevent the murder of Monsignor Romero from going unpunished.
“We celebrate this commitment and hope that soon all of the perpetrators and intellectual authors of this crime will be identified, prosecuted and punished. Also, we congratulate the Salvadoran General Assembly for having recently agreed to designate March 24 the ‘National Day of Monsignor Óscar Arnulfo Romero.’ Today we accompany the Government of El Salvador and its people on such an important day.”