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.
IN MAIDEN ADDRESS TO OAS COUNCIL, NEW U.S. ENVOY EMPHASIZES HIS COUNTRY’S PLEDGE OF EXTENDING THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY
April 1, 2008
Ambassador Hector Morales delivered his first formal address to the Organization of American States Permanent Council today, amidst pledges he will do his utmost “to find common ground” as Permanent Representative of the United States so as to work with his country’s OAS partners to advance their common interests.
“I greatly value consensus,” Ambassador Morales declared to his hemispheric colleagues at the Permanent Council’s regular session, chaired by Barbados’ Ambassador Michael I. King. “And while it is sometimes hard to achieve, it is absolutely worth striving for.”
Stating it would be the guiding principle for his delegation’s engagement in the OAS, Morales went on to state: “We seek a hemispheric community of nations on the path towards greater prosperity, liberty, social justice—a community determined to make good on democracy’s promise for all of our peoples.” He said the U.S. government’s pledge “speaks to a shared hemispheric vision” of a hemisphere committed to peace and prosperity.
Ambassador Morales, who presented credentials to OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza on March 14, reiterated President George W. Bush’s emphasis on the United States goal of extending “the blessings of liberty to every person in this hemisphere, and that by doing so together, we will fulfill the destiny of this New World and set a shining example for others.
“The United States is firmly committed to working through the OAS to foster democratic governance and protect fundamental rights and liberties. Governments must invest in the capacity of their people so that economic and social opportunities become meaningful to all members of society,” said Morales.
On other priorities, he underscored the rule of law as “also essential to democracy. Citizens also need to fell protected, for without security development stops.” In surveying the profound changes the hemisphere has undergone in recent decades, the U.S. Permanent Representative asserted that democracy prevails and respect for human rights is the norm, not the exception. “Elected leaders must govern justly and democratically to maintain their legitimacy and to facilitate the growth of domestic culture of democracy,” said Morales.
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