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 Shares Expertise on Technologies to Protect Civilians in Geneva
April 12, 2013
The Organization of American States, through the Secretariat for Multidimensional Security, and the General Coordinator of the program for Comprehensive Action against Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) and Assistance for Control of Arms and Munitions, Carl Case, and the program’s coordinator in Colombia, Guillermo Leal, participated this week in Geneva in the "2013 Meeting of the Group Of Experts Of The High Contracting Parties To Amended Protocol II on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby Traps and Other Devices of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons."
During the Group of Experts meeting, held in the United Nations Office at Geneva, international organizations were invited to share their views on existing practices and technologies to protect civilians against the indiscriminate effects of explosive weapons. To address this subject, Case presented a briefing on Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) from the Perspective of the Threat and Responses in the Americas.
The presentation of the senior OAS official provided details related to IED components and explosive substances, mechanisms, as well as clearance methods that have been proven effective in the field. In this regard, since systematic clearance of improvised explosive devices began in Colombian communities with OAS assistance in 2007, there have been no accidents to any of the de-miners involved and civilian casualties have been greatly reduced in several areas of the country.
The OAS continues to make available the expertise found in its mine action program, which is best known for its humanitarian nature. The OAS seeks to reestablish safe and secure living conditions for mine-affected populations, reducing the risk and dangers of antipersonnel mines, and returning previously mined land to productive use.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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