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 and Government of Chile Sign Letter of Intent to Support Inter-American Network for Disaster Mitigation
March 24, 2010
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, and the Minister of Foreign Relations of Chile, Alfredo Moreno, today signed a Letter of Intent to support the implementation of the Inter-American Network for Disaster Mitigation (INDM).
Its purpose is to promote the exchange of information, knowledge and experiences on Natural Disaster Risk Management and to strengthen planning and disaster management, and to promote the participation of other regional governments in responding more efficiently to natural disasters that affect the Hemisphere.
During the Ceremony, which was held in the office of the Secretary General at Organization headquarters in Washington, D.C., the head of the hemispheric organization asserted that “natural disasters, in all their various forms, are unfortunately much too common in our hemisphere. That is why we must promote INDM and support its development so that all countries of the Americas may exchange experiences, plan together and prevent and respond in a more efficient way when a phenomenon of this type occurs.”
For his part, the Chilean Foreign Minister stated that “the earthquake that struck Chile forced us to clearly see the importance of cooperation between sister countries in overcoming those times when a country’s resources are not enough—hence the significance of the Letter we sign today.”
Through the Department of Sustainable Development of the OAS Executive Secretariat for Integral Development, the Government of Chile will make available to the Technical Secretariat of the INDM a roster of experts on risk management who work in various competent government bodies so they may participate in projects and programs involving the sharing of knowledge and experiences. Furthermore, with the sponsorship and support of the INDM it will promote the organization of conferences, seminars and workshops in Chile, in matters of early alert systems, earthquake prediction centers and building codes and standards.
The INDM is the permanent hemispheric mechanism for strengthening practical collaboration between inter-governmental agencies in the area of disaster reduction, particularly for exchanging technical information and best practices.
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