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 Permanent Council Establishes Date for CIFTA Meeting and Elects Member of Leo Rowe Fund
March 13, 2015
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today approved, during a regular meeting at the headquarters of the Organization in Washington, DC, the date and location of the next meeting of the Consultative Committee of the Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and Other Related Materials (CIFTA), and elected a member of the Leo S. Rowe Fund.
During the meeting, the Council decided to hold the meeting of the CIFTA consultative committee on May 6 at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the OAS in Washington DC.
On another point on the agenda, and at the request of the Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and chair of the Leo S. Rowe Fund Committee, La Celia Prince, the Council elected Michael Patrick, Interim Representative of the United States to the OAS, as a new member of the Committee, replacing Melissa Kopolow McCall, also from the United States mission to the OAS.
Finally, the Council received a report on the Third Ministerial Meeting on eGovernment in Latin America and the Caribbean and on the Eighth Meeting of the Network of e-Government Leaders of Latin America and the Caribbean (GEALC Network), held in Cartagena on December 3 and 4, 2014, delivered by the Permanent Representative of Colombia to the OAS, Andrés González Díaz.
During the meeting, the representatives of Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Dominica, Barbados, Mexico, the United States, Venezuela and Saint Vincent and the Granadines, and the Permanent Observer of France all took the floor.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.