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.
With the approval of the documents submitted to a vote by member states, the 50th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) concluded today, after two days of sessions held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the last plenary session, the Assembly approved resolutions on Nicaragua and Venezuela, among other documents. All documents approved by the General Assembly are or will be available here.
In a vote held in person at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC within the framework of the same Assembly, member states elected Benjamin Berger (Canada), María del Carmen Maldonado (Ecuador), and María Victoria Rivas (Paraguay), as members of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas.
Likewise, by acclamation, Ramiro Gastón Orías Arredondo (Bolivia), Cecilia Fresnedo de Aguirre (Uruguay) and Stephen G. Larson (USA) were elected to the Inter-American Juridical Committee; and Joan Carroll Lugo (USA) to the Board of External Auditors of the OAS.
Michel Bastarache (Canada) was elected by acclamation to the Administrative Tribunal.
The OAS member states also approved the offer of Guatemala to host the 51st General Assembly of the Organization in 2021.