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.
Uruguay Ratifies before the OAS its Adherence to the Interamerican Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters
March 14, 2012
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Jose Miguel Insulza, and the Interim Representative of Uruguay to the organism, Jorge Callazo Uboldi, signed today the Act of Deposit of the Instrument of Ratification on behalf of the Uruguayan government of the Interamerican Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters.
The Secretary General congratulated Uruguay for having ratified an instrument which marks “the whole of the activity of the OAS, which looks to harmonize existing judicial systems in the hemisphere with respect to internal legislation, adoping common norms”. The Convention, emphasized Insulza, is the bedrock of a group of mechanisms created in the headquarters of the OAS to contribute to the strengthening of interchange between nations in support of criminal matters, like the Meeting of Ministers of Justice of the Americas and that of the Ministers of Public Security.
"Many of our citizens place a lot of importance on the issue of crime and the necessity of cooperation on criminal matters is increasingly important”, emphasized the top representative of the OAS.
For his part the Uruguayan representative expressed the desire of his government “so that in a short time the Convention can be adopted by all the member states of the OAS, in order that this important instrument achieves the universality it deserves”.
Uruguay agreed on January 22 of 1993 to the Convention, which was adopted in the 22nd Ordinary Period of sessions of the General Assembly of the OAS, in Nassau (Bahamas), on May 23rd 1992. Currently, 27 member countries have ratified the Convention.
The signing ceremony took place at the headquarters of the OAS in Washington, DC and was attended by the Adjunct Secretary General of the OAS, Albert Ramdin, and the President of the Permanent Council and Representative of Haiti, Duly Brutus.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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