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 NAMES FORMER ARGENTINEAN FOREIGN MINISTER
TO LEAD SPECIAL MISSION TO NICARAGUA
June 28, 2005
Secretary General José Miguel Insulza today named the former Argentinean foreign minister Dante Caputo as the Organization of American States’, (OAS) special envoy to facilitate dialogue in Nicaragua. Caputo will also collaborate on efforts to strengthen that country’s democracy. He heads to Nicaragua Wednesday to continue discussions initiated by a high-level mission that Insulza led there two weeks ago.
In an oral report to the OAS Permanent Council last week, following that visit, Insulza announced he would appoint a special OAS mission to Nicaragua—under a high-level representative—to facilitate dialogue.
Caputo emerged from a private meeting with Insulza at OAS headquarters today, saying he would remain in Nicaragua for as long as it takes “to do the job the Secretary General asked me to do in assisting and facilitating dialogue between and among the parties involved.” He added, “The job of facilitating is top priority—to help the parties find common ground to resume their dialogue. This is not a mediation effort.”
Insulza, meanwhile, explained that the mission headed by Dante Caputo is intended to spur national dialogue between various segments of Nicaraguan society and the government, and report back to the Permanent Council on “the unfolding of events in Nicaragua.” The mission is being undertaken against the backdrop of the Inter-American Democratic Charter and in pursuance of a Declaration of Support for Nicaragua, adopted by the hemisphere’s foreign ministers at the recent OAS General Assembly session in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Dante Caputo holds a political science degree from Salvador University of Buenos Aires and a doctorate in sociology from the University of Paris. He served as political advisor to then president Raúl Alfonsín and later as foreign affairs minister of Argentina until 1989, when he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies. In 1988 he was elected as president of the 43rd United Nations General Assembly. He is also Director of the Program for Democratic Development in Latin America (PRODDAL).