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.
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today welcomed Prime Minister David Thompson of Barbados, to the Organization’s headquarters in Washington. During the Head of Government’s courtesy visit, he exchanged ideas with Insulza and with OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin on a wide range of hemispheric issues.
During the meeting, the Secretary General and the Prime Minister discussed the progress achieved in relation to the free trade agreements being negotiated in the region. In this regard, Insulza underscored the value of these agreements and the benefits they will bring to the people. Insulza expressed his support and continued commitment to maintain “this issue of priority for the OAS,” on top of the regional Organization’s agenda.
Prime Minister Thompson thanked Secretary Insulza for the “Organization’s contributions in terms of technical cooperation”, to the island nation, underscoring in particular those efforts related to its international trade program.
“Trade promotion is as important as trade negotiations,” Insulza told the visiting delegation, as he stressed the importance of achieving fair and beneficial agreements.
Speaking about the benefits of trade agreements, Insulza noted that they “eliminate tariffs and trade barriers and expand regional opportunities for workers, manufacturers, consumers, farmers, ranchers and service providers,” adding that by improving their economies, the agreements “help countries strengthen their democracies and develop a better life for their citizens.”
Prime Minister Thompson, who took office in January of this year, has also ministerial responsibility for the portfolios of Finance, Economic Affairs and Development, Labor, the Civil Service and Energy. The newly elected Prime Minister was accompanied on the visit by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Christopher Peter Sinckler and the Ambassador of Barbados to the OAS, Michael King.
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