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.
Guatemala’s Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States, Ambassador Víctor Hugo Godoy, today deposited his governments ratification instruments relating to the Inter-American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters.
During a brief ceremony at OAS Headquarters, the Ambassador stated that by ratifying the treaty Guatemala—the tenth member state to do so thus far—was upholding its responsibility to strengthen solidarity and mutual assistance among member states to keep crime in check. “Guatemala feels that efforts must be pooled to ensure international justice prevails in relations and integral development is attained for our citizens.”
He observed that “threats from scourges like drug trafficking, terrorism, organized crime and corruption taking on international dimensions undermine not only the foundations of our states but also democratic and harmonious coexistence, to the detriment of our societies’ well-being.”
Receiving the ratification documents, OAS Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi told the Ambassador that with the adoption of the Convention, “the inter-American legal system has been strengthened with common rules that are applied among member states—the product of evolving international criminal law.”
According to Ambassador Einaudi, the Convention seeks basically to formalize cooperation among member states on criminal matters, thereby affording governments additional mechanisms with which to campaign against organized crime and impunity.”
Adopted at the OAS General Assembly in The Bahamas in 1992, the Inter-American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters took effect four years later. Guatemala now joins Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Grenada, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, United States and Venezuela as states that have ratified the treaty.
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