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.
Declaration of the Secretary General on the Designation of the Executive Secretary of the IACHR
August 25, 2020
In light of the statement issued by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) states that, unfortunately, no progress has been made in the process of designating the Executive Secretary of the IACHR due to the existence of dozens of functional complaints that have been presented to the institutional mechanisms responsible for guaranteeing and promoting the rights of the Organization's officials and for processing, in this case, the repeated complaints about possible rights violations.
We regret that the IACHR, despite being aware of dozens of complaints, in some cases for months, has not transmitted them to the Office of the Inspector General for their substantiation, which should ultimately have been carried out by the General Secretariat. This lack of processing is a serious blow to its credibility. Obviously, the seriousness and gravity of the aforementioned complaints and the need to substantiate them have not allowed the approval of this designation to be granted as it was in 2016.
The presumption of innocence has been ensured, as well as that there is no impunity or defenselessness with regard to complaints of violation of the rights of officials within the IACHR or in any office of the Organization. Not while I'm Secretary General.
It is completely unethical and reprehensible to attempt to generate confusion regarding what constitutes the individual functional responsibility and accountability of one or more officials and what constitutes the autonomy of the IACHR.
The Secretary General's job has been to ensure the autonomy and independence of the IACHR both in terms of the substance of its work and in the administrative area. This has been done and will continue to be done without fail. Likewise, it is expected that the institutional responsibilities of the Secretary General with regard to functional matters of the Organization will be understood. The Secretary General appreciates the willingness for dialogue expressed and hopes that it can be resumed after it was unilaterally interrupted by the IACHR yesterday.
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