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.
NICARAGUA RATIFIES TREATY ON TRANSPARENCY
IN CONVENTIONAL ARMS ACQUISITIONS
May 6, 2003
Nicaragua today became the latest Organization of American States member to deposit ratification instruments for the Inter-American Convention on Conventional Arms Acquisitions, adopted in Guatemala City in June 1999.
“This ratification is a vote for confidence-building among the states of the Americas,” declared Nicaragua’s Ambassador to the OAS Carmen Marina Gutiérrez, presenting to Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi the documents pertaining to the treaty that entered into force last November.
The Nicaraguan diplomat said her government feels that “reducing armaments under a balance-of-forces scheme enables resources to be channeled into economic and social development.” She said “this is also a vote of confidence in information-sharing on such arms acquisitions since it boosts cooperation among member states of the Americas.”
The Assistant Secretary General noted that the entry into force of the Convention was a significant move towards the goal of effective conventional arms limitation which in turn will lead to maximum levels of resources being devoted to economic and social development in member states.”
Ambassador Einaudi explained that while the treaty is based on a system of transparency originally articulated by the United Nations, “it has been enhanced within our Hemisphere because under this Convention, the reports are mandatory once the treaty is ratified, making the element of confidence more solid.”
The countries that have ratified the Inter-American Convention on Transparency in Conventional Arms Acquisitions are Canada, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
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