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.
Former Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Ernesto Leal, a candidate for the post of Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), said today he would work closely with the Secretary General and member states to effectively tackle the OAS’ budget problem and other issues.
The OAS must be modernized “based on new and creative ideas,” Leal told member state delegates at a meeting of the Permanent Council, chaired by Peru’s Ambassador Alberto Borea. The election for Assistant Secretary General will take place during the upcoming OAS General Assembly session, slated for Fort Lauderdale in June.
On the role the OAS should take amid signs of institutional crisis in the hemisphere’s nations, the former Nicaraguan minister declared: “I firmly believe our organization should anticipate developments that could threaten some of our nascent democracies, rather than wait until disaster strikes and inflicts irreparable and irreversible harm.” He recalled the leadership role the OAS had played in his own country’s peace process that brought an end to nearly ten years of civil war.
Democracy must be linked to development, Leal asserted, explaining that “we should all safeguard democracy as set forth in the Democratic Charter.” But, he noted, democracy must be linked as well to progress as a matter of priority, so that “our citizens can feel that democracy does deliver well-being and that without democracy the benefits of development are harder to come by.”
According to Leal, “All our countries, big and small, face common challenges that call for common solutions.” He stressed the need to find consensus through dialogue to effectively tackle together new multidimensional threats. Following his formal presentation, Leal took questions from several member state representatives, regarding the need for a stronger OAS.
A civil engineer with a Master’s degree from the Georgia Institute, Leal served as his country’s Foreign Affairs Minister and as Secretary General of the Central American Integration System (SICA), among other positions. In 1993 he was part of OAS special missions on peace initiatives in Guatemala and Haiti.
Besides Ernesto Leal, the other candidate for the post of OAS Assistant Secretary General is Ambassador Albert R. Ramdin, a former Ambassador of Suriname to the OAS and former Assistant Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
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