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 Organization of American States (OAS) today concluded its 51st General Assembly, held this week in Washington DC and during which Guatemala served as host.
In the last plenary session, the Assembly approved resolutions on the situation in Nicaragua and Haiti, the Inter-American Business Charter, and the development of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the Hemisphere, among other documents. All documents approved by the General Assembly are or will be available here.
In a vote held in person at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC, within the framework of the same Assembly, the member states elected Rodrigo Bittencourt Mudrovitsch (Brazil), Verónica Gómez (Argentina), Nancy Hernández López (Costa Rica), and Patricia Pérez Goldbergh (Chile) as members of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Member states also re-elected Joel Hernández García (Mexico) and elected Roberta Clarke (Barbados) and Carlos Bernal Pulido (Colombia) as members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Likewise, the Assembly elected by acclamation for the Justice Studies Center of the Americas Jenny Willier Murphy (United States) and Nadia Franco Bazán (Panama); and Michel Bastarache (Canada) for the Administrative Tribunal.
The General Assembly also elected Luis García Corrochano-Moyano (Peru) by acclamation as a new member of the Inter-American Juridical Committee and instructed the Permanent Council to elect two new members of the Committee in January 2022.
In addition, the OAS member states approved by acclamation that Peru host the 52nd General Assembly of the Organization in 2022.