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.
By consensus, a regular session of the OAS Permanent Council—chaired by Ambassador Miguel Ruiz-Cabañas of Mexico—adopted a resolution granting the observer status, following a request by the PRC government. The Council approved the request following reports on the issue by the Permanent Council Chairman and by the Chairman of the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs, Ambassador Juan Manuel Castulovich of Panama.
“The Chinese side will take real action to actively promote its cooperation with the OAS so as to realize common development,” Ambassador Yang Jiechi told the Permanent Council, in his first address as Permanent Observer. Pointing to broad areas of interest China shares with OAS member states in maintaining peace and promoting development, he asserted, “Our cooperation promises broad prospects.”
Ambassador Yang said China’s permanent observer status with the OAS will provide a new platform for exchanges and cooperation between China and the states of the Americas. “This will be helpful in our joint efforts to further develop cooperation in all fields, and to make important contribution to peace, stability and prosperity in the Americas and the world at large,” he declared, praising the OAS’ active and important role in maintaining regional stability and security, advancing peace and development and promoting regional integration.
In the resolution, the Permanent Council of the member state ambassadors invited the PRC to accredit a permanent observer to the OAS organs, agencies and entities.
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