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 HOSTS EXPERTS’ MEETING ON CRIMES THAT USE THE INTERNET
June 23, 2003
A two-day meeting opened at the Organization of American States in Washington today, with experts discussing how to intensify strategies against Internet-based crimes.
Inaugurating the meeting, OAS Secretary General César Gaviria told the government experts on cyber-crime that, given the international scope of the problem, “mutual judicial cooperation and assistance is vital to prevent, pursue and punish” Internet-based crime.
He said collective action by all is crucial because this new form of crime—which he identified among the greatest challenges to international judicial cooperation—poses a severe threat to any state and to others with which it is connected. “The September 11 terrorist acts and the development of transnational organized crime have made it clear that we must speed up efforts to strengthen and consolidate international cooperation to effectively combat a variety of international crime mechanisms.”
Recalling earlier recommendations on the subject, Gaviria urged states that have not yet done so to adopt the necessary measures to identify or strengthen specialized units to investigate and pursue cyber-crimes. He also spoke about terrorist groups exploiting the Internet, and insisted that “It is unacceptable for illegal armed groups, such as those committing terrorist acts in Colombia, to be able to abuse tools like the Internet to defend their criminal deeds.”
In his opening remarks Dr. Enrique Lagos, the OAS’ Assistant Secretary for Legal Affairs, explained that the during their meeting the experts would follow up on recommendations from the previous Meetings of Ministers of Justice of the Americas. They will also consider drawing up hemispheric legal instruments and model legislation for submission to the Fifth Meeting of Justice Ministers of the Americas.
Leonard Bailey, a trial attorney with the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the U.S.Department of Justice, was elected to chair the meeting whose agenda includes an overview of OAS work on cyber-rime; review of the mandate of the experts’ group; discussions on the extent of the cyber-crime problem; and a roundtable featuring initiatives by certain countries to combat cyber-crime.
Before wrapping up their meeting on Tuesday, the governmental experts will adopt a number of recommendations and also discuss a cyber-security meeting that is slated for Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 23 to 29.
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