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.
30TH MEETING OF THE SUMMIT IMPLEMENTATION REVIEW GROUP (SIRG)
July 23, 2003
The 30th Meeting of the Summit Implementation Review Group (SIRG) was held in Washington, DC on July 21-22, 2003. The purpose of the meeting was to prepare for the upcoming Special Summit of the Americas to be hosted by the government of Mexico.
César Gaviria, Secretary General of the Organization of American States, inaugurated the meeting. The SIRG heard remarks as well from the new President of the Summit Process, Ambassador Eduardo Sguiglia, Under Secretary of Latin American Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina, and from Dr. Miguel Hakim, Under Secretary for Latin America and the Caribbean, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, as President of the Special Summit.
The goal of the Special Summit is to facilitate hemispheric cooperation at the highest level of government to address the current economic, social and political challenges in the region. Approximately one third of heads of state and government in the hemisphere have assumed office since the most recent Summit of the Americas in Quebec City in April 2001. The agenda of the Special Summit will center on three issues -- Economic Growth with Equity, Social Development, and Democratic Governance.
Discussions at this SIRG meeting included consideration of the draft agenda, format, content and logistics of the planned Special Summit. Countries were very keen on ensuring that this Special Summit remain focused on specific issues and support multilateral and national actions to solve critical problems affecting people in the Hemisphere. The 31st Meeting of the SIRG will be held in Washington, DC on September 22, 2003.