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.
Costa Rica Reaffirms its Adhesion to the Inter-American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters at the OAS
March 14, 2012
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Jose Miguel Insulza, and the Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the organization, Ambassador Edgar Ugalde Alvarez, today signed on behalf of the Costa Rican government, the Act of Deposit of the Instrument of Ratification of the Inter-American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters.
Secretary General Insulza assured that the Convention develops the principles established in the OAS Charter, which in its second Article states that among the essential purposes of the hemispheric organization is “to seek the solution of the political, legal, and economic problems that may arise between them.”
Also, the OAS head celebrated that with the signing of Costa Rica, there are now 27 countries who have ratified the Convention “and with this we have the basic resources to do a much more intense and serious job in this area which has been of concern to our countries in recent years.”
For his part, Ambassador Ugalde, took the opportunity to call on governments to strengthen national justice agencies, “we can approve the best tools in the world, produced by the best specialists, but if we do not train national judges and do not pay attention to the judicial organizations, these steps, which are extraordinary, do not correspond with firmness.”
On March 8, 2002, Costa Rica acceded to the Convention which was adopted at the Twenty-second regular session of the General Assembly in Nassau (Bahamas) on May 23, 1992.
The signing ceremony, which took place at OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C., and was attended by the Assistant Secretary General of the OAS, Albert Ramdin, and the President of the Permanent Council and Representative of Haiti, Ambassador 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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