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.
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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.
New Representative of Colombia to the OAS Presents Credentials
March 30, 2012
The new Permanent Representative of Colombia to the OAS Andrés González Días, today presented his credentials to the OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza.
During the ceremony, the Colombian diplomat reaffirmed that the vision of the Americas and the values of Colombia coincide with the OAS values, which he said “is the highest political body in the hemisphere.”
Ambassador González pointed out that Cartagena de Indias will host on April 14 and 15 the 6th Summit of the Americas, a meeting at which “progress in regional integration” is expected. At the meeting of Heads of State and Government, participants will look to “discuss the most important issues of the continent”, in order to achieve “solutions, union and understanding,” he added.
Secretary General Insulza highlighted the priority that Colombia has always placed on the “Inter-American System and our Organization,” pointing out that the OAS governed by the concerted will of the Member Countries. "Beyond the differences and difficulties between us, there is always a desire to move forward constructively, especially in these defining times for our region," he said.
About the Cartagena Summit, the head of the hemispheric organization expressed his belief "that we will have a great success" and reiterated that the current period is a "moment of great challenge for our region," especially from the point of view "of development, of the threats to security, of the consolidation of democracy and of the strengthening of human rights."
Present at the ceremony, held at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC, were the OAS Assistant Secretary General, Ambassador Albert Ramdin, the President of the Permanent Council and the Permanent Representative of Haiti, Duly Brutus, the President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Luis Alberto Moreno, and the Permanent Representatives of Argentina, Barbados, Chile, El Salvador, Honduras, United States, Mexico, Panama, Dominican Republic and St. Lucia.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.