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.
U.S. ENVOY ASSUMES OAS PERMANENT COUNCIL CHAIR, URGES AN END TO IMPUNITY AND FREE ELECTIONS IN HAITI
July 1, 2002
Ambassador Roger Noriega, the United States Permanent Representative, assumed the chairmanship of the Organization of American States' (OAS) Permanent Council today, calling on the government of Haiti to move decisively to end impunity and establish the rule of law, in a bid to end the Caribbean nation's political crisis.
The U.S. diplomat was accepting the reins of the three-month rotating chair from his Salvadorian counterpart, Ambassador Margarita Escobar, when he referred to the report just submitted by the independent commission on inquiry that investigated the December 17, 2001 violence in Haiti. "I am assuming this office at a moment of truth in Haiti," declared Noriega, pointing to the report, issued under OAS Permanent Council Resolution 806 of January 15, 2002.
"It is now essential that the government of Haiti move decisively to end impunity and establish the rule of law and that both sides agree to fair elections and to finish the initial political accord in the days ahead," he added, pledging, as Permanent Council chairman, the full support of that office to diplomatic initiatives by the OAS Secretary General and Assistant Secretary General to broker a resolution of the crisis.
Noriega said he would be consolidating the work of his predecessors, and urged a timely installation of the Permanent Council committees so as to distribute—and move immediately on implementing—the mandates from the recently-concluded General Assembly in Barbados.
He said he would also be working with the OAS Secretary General to conduct briefings with the U.S. Congress "and other influential policy groups" to emphasize the work of the new OAS.
Assuming the Permanent Council Chair, Ambassador Noriega lauded the leadership of his predecessor, Ambassador Escobar, with whom he switched roles as she now becomes Vice Chair.
OAS Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi and the Secretary General's Chief of Staff, Fernando Jaramillo, joined Ambassadors, Permanent Mission representatives and OAS Secretariat staff for the brief ceremony.
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