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.
The Ecuadorian capital of Quito will host a regional conference entitled One step towards an anti-personnel mine-free hemisphere, next August 12 and 13. The meeting will seek to examine how member states collectively impact the effort to rid the hemisphere of landmines.
Convened jointly by the Ecuadorian and Canadian governments in conjunction with the Organization of American States, the meeting will also serve as preparation for the First Review Conference of the Antipersonnel Mine Ban Convention, slated for Nairobi, Kenya, later this year.
Some 40 government, multilateral and civil society organizations will be represented at the Quito conference, where countries will share lessons learned in various aspects of mine action in the Americas.
The 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, known also as the Ottawa Convention, is the premier international treaty on this subject. On April 20, 1999, the treaty was ratified by Ecuador, one of 143 states that have done so to date.
In 2001, the OAS entered into an agreement with the governments of Ecuador and Peru to support mine-clearing activities on the border region the two countries share. That agreement covers a variety of issues including preventive education, victim rehabilitation and destruction of existing stockpiles. Since the beginning of this year, some half a million stockpiled landmines have been destroyed, making the border area between both countries mine free.
With OAS assistance, mine-clearing operations code-named Condor Mountains are underway in the Ecuador-Peru border region. Under its Comprehensive Mine Action Program, the OAS has also provided assistance to the governments of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
Besides de-mining operations, the Quito conference will also cover such issues as preventive education, victim rehabilitation, data collection and storage, and mine stockpile destruction. It will be the second such regional conference. The first was held in Peru last year.
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