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.
OAS Promotes Experience Sharing in Panama on Competitiveness and MSMEs Environmental Performance
March 21, 2014
The Organization of American States (OAS) held in Panama City on March 19 and 20, 2014, a cross-sectoral dialogue on competitiveness and the environmental performance of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), which took place in the context of the 9th International Symposium on Cleaner Production (CP) in the capital of Panama.
The "cross-sectoral Dialogue on competitiveness and the environmental performance of MSMEs" was coordinated by the OAS Department of Sustainable Development as a mechanism for facilitating the "Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas." The event included the participation of representatives from civil society, academia and governments of the Hemisphere. During the meeting, Carlos Fernando Cadavid, Deputy Director of P+L of Colombia, stressed that "improving the competitiveness of MSMEs is achieved through investment practices and cleaner production technologies." The meeting offered a forum for dialogue and the exchange of ideas and experiences aimed at improving the environmental performance and competitiveness of MSMEs, in particular those in the production sector.
In order to stimulate economic growth in the region, the "Pathways to Prosperity" initiative’s activities seek to promote the access of MSMEs to markets, modernization, technological innovation, and to financial and credit mechanisms. Furthermore, the initiative aims to improve and expand cleaner production practices especially within MSMEs, even through the exchange of best practices to help farmers and other sectors to increase the access of their sustainably developed products to markets. In this regard, María Dueñas of the National Commission on Small and Medium Enterprises (CONAMYPE) of El Salvador said during her intervention that "the model of the Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) can be adapted to include the realities of our countries."
The "Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas" initiative provides a forum at the political level for member states to learn from of each other’s experiences by sharing best practices and by cooperating to promote inclusive growth, prosperity and sustainable development. The Mechanism to Facilitate the Initiative, established in the Department of Sustainable Development of the OAS General Secretariat, works in close coordination with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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