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 Secretary General Celebrates International Migrants Day
December 18, 2011
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today celebrated International Migrants Day and recognized the contribution that workers who emigrate from their countries make to the construction and enriching of the nations that receive them.
The head of the OAS highlighted that, according to ECLAC, migrants contribute labor, knowledge and business capabilities to their host countries, stimulating growth and complementing the labor supply. He also underlined the significance of the economic contribution they make to their countries of origin through remittances, which according to estimates from the World Bank this year reached 346 billion dollars at the global level, a figure far surpassing the total amount of international aid for development.
Secretary General Insulza emphasized, as an important thematic line for work at the OAS, the promotion of public policies that lead to improvements in the management of migration in the Americas through the facilitation of dialogue, cooperation, institutional strengthening and access to information. “During the elaboration of migration policies it would be convenient for countries to pay special interest to the study of regional migration with an integral, objective, and long-term approach on the causes, manifestations, effects and impacts of migration on the region,” he held. He added that for that “it is important to have an exchange of relevant statistical information on migrant workers and other related migration flows related to development in countries of origin, transit and destination.”
On the International Migrants Day, the head of the OAS recalled that the Inter-American Democratic Charter ensures that the elimination of all forms of discrimination, especially that motivated by gender, ethnicity and race, and of the diverse forms of intolerance, as well as the promotion and protection of human rights of indigenous peoples and migrants, contributes to the strengthening of democracy and citizen participation.
The OAS, through the Migration and Development Program, managed by the Department of Social Development and Employment, and of the Rapporteurship on Migrant Workers and their families, belonging to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, reiterates its commitment with the subject, addressing it from an integral perspective and taking into account consideration in the International Law of Human Rights.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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