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.
Resolution of the OAS Permanent Council on the Situation in the Republic of Ecuador
September 30, 2010
THE PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES,
HAVING HEARD the presentation by the Permanent Representative of Ecuador on the current situation in the country, which threatens the democratic order, institutional democratic system and the rule of law in Ecuador;
UNDERSCORING the provisions of the Charter of the Organization of American States and the provisions of the Inter-American Democratic Charter with respect to the strengthening and preservation of the democratic institutional system;
CONCERNED about acts of violence against the physical safety and challenges to the Constitutional President of the Republic of Ecuador Rafael Correa Delgado;
MINDFUL of the commitment by the inter-American system to safeguard on a permanent basis the stability of the democratic institutions of its member states and full respect for human rights in the Hemisphere; and
REAFFIRMING that the strengthening and preservation of democratic order, the institutional system, and the rule of law in the member states is an essential purpose of the Organization, which calls for hemispheric solidarity,
RESOLVES:
1. To repudiate any attempt to alter the democratic institutional system in Ecuador.
2. To firmly support the constitutional government of President Rafael Correa Delgado of the Republic of Ecuador in its obligation to preserve the institutional democratic order and the rule of law.
3. To make a strong appeal to Ecuador’s law enforcement personnel, as well as to the political and social sectors to avoid all acts of violence and other acts that could further exacerbate a situation of political instability, threatening the established democratic order, freedom from social unrest, and public security.
4. To request the Government of Ecuador to continue reporting on developments in that country in order to take appropriate measures to strengthen and preserve the democratic institutional system.
5. To ask the Secretary General to offer the Organization’s full cooperation, at the request of the Government of Ecuador, to preserve the democratic institutional system in that country.