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 Assistant Secretary General Opened First Inter-American Congress on the Environmental Rule of Law
March 30, 2015
The Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert Ramdin, today opened the First Inter-American Congress on the Environmental Rule of Law in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
The event, organized by the OAS, the United Nations Environment Programme, the International Union for Conservation of Natural Resources (IUCN) and the Caribbean Court of Justice, takes place until tomorrow and includes the participation of more than one hundred high-level officials including judges, prosecutors, parliamentarians, experts from international organizations, academics, students, and representatives of civil society and the private sector. The meeting seeks to promote the development and strengthening of environmental legislation, policies and institutions as foundations of democracy and sustainable development in the Americas.
In his speech, Assistant Secretary General Ramdin expressed his hope that the meeting "will carefully and respectfully consider the evidence, facts and opinions to make the commitment to invest in the design and adoption of the policies, laws and regulations necessary to protect the well-being of the people and their environment."
During the meeting participants will analyze the different perspectives and emerging trends on environmental law in the region, in order to respond to the need to intensify Inter-American efforts to identify inclusive responses to the challenges related to environmental law and governance.
The event will include presentations by recognized authorities, presidents of the highest courts of justice of the Americas, parliamentarians and experts in the subject matter from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia, on the following themes: the prevention and management of conflicts surrounding shared natural resources; environmental compliance and enforcement; rights of access: information, justice and process; and legal frameworks for the management of water resources, trade, investment and the environment, among other issues.
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