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.
URUGUAY FOREIGN MINISTER DIDIER OPERTTI URGES
NEW CONCEPT OF GOVERNMENT AND CITIZEN
July 17, 2003
Uruguay’s Foreign Minister, Didier Opertti, addressing member state representatives at the Organization of American States today, called for the concept of government and citizen to be reinvented through a change of attitude.
Foreign Minister Opertti addressed a specially-convened session of the OAS Permanent Council in a wide-ranging presentation on democratic governance, the main theme of last month’s OAS General Assembly. He spoke about the need for the state to deliver good governance, stressing that governance is not just a function of government but has to do with citizens. He underscored the need for a new kind of citizen who is not merely a consumer but an active participant.
He also pointed to the impact of sweeping external phenomena on the political democracies of the region, including globalization as an inescapable fact. The Minister expressed concern that net producers of food, such as the region’s countries, should not have to face closed doors or unfair competition through subsidies and protectionism. “That does not ensure governance but instead leads to wavering in terms of belief in the general rules of trade. It leads to doubts and uncertainty about the future of our economies. And uncertainty is the main obstacle to governance,” he argued, adding that governance supposes foresight, certainty and abiding by a set of basic rules. “And these basic rules are eroded under the pressures of inequitable international trade, international trade barriers and other obstacles.”
The Uruguayan Foreign Minister suggested that the OAS monitor the Doha process to see how it handles regional interests and review the impact of cooperation to clearly assess and measure cooperation programs in terms of their effect on development, as this must be part of stock-taking for any governance program.
In welcoming the Uruguayan dignitary, Permanent Council Chairman Ambassador Raymond Valcin of Haiti recalled Opertti’s address to the 33rd OAS General Assembly in Chile last month and his emphasis on multilateralism, non-intervention, good governance and the symbiosis between democracy and education.
Several of the member state Ambassadors also welcomed the Foreign Minister, lauding his excellent presentation that raised very important issues to enrich the OAS debate.
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