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.
NEW AMBASSADOR OF ECUADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS AT OAS
May 29, 2007
The new Ambassador of Ecuador to the Organization of American States (OAS), Efrén Alfonso Cocíos Jaramillo, today reiterated his government’s confidence in the regional organization, calling the OAS “the engine of development for our peoples and for the strengthening and triumph of democracy in the hemisphere.” Ambassador Cocíos made his remarks as he presented his credentials to Secretary General José Miguel Insulza during a brief ceremony at OAS headquarters.
The Secretary General conveyed the confidence of the OAS that the political process underway in Ecuador—first with elections, followed by the Constituent Assembly and then with the new Constitution that will be drafted—“will bring development and stability to that country.” Insulza said he is certain President Rafael Correa will make all necessary efforts for that to be possible.
Insulza welcomed the new diplomat, who joins the Organization just days before the opening of the General Assembly in Panama, in which the region’s Ministers of Foreign Affairs will debate issues related to “Energy for Sustainable Development,” the central theme of the meeting. The Secretary General referred to the benefits of international cooperation in terms of energy capacity, noting that cooperation opens the door not only to greater solidarity “but also to technology that is being developed around the world, some of which has its origins and is being developed in our own region.”
In presenting the documents that accredit him as Ecuador’s Permanent Representative to the OAS, Ambassador Cocíos noted that the issues that will be addressed at the General Assembly, which begins June 3 in Panama, are the same that concern his country. He referred, among other points, to climate change and to the problem of technological dependency, “which is more serious than economic dependency.”
Ambassador Cocíos holds a doctorate in jurisprudence and is an Attorney of the Tribunals of the Republic of Ecuador, specializing in banking and academic law. In his political career he has served as Deputy Mayor of Quito, Representative in the National Congress and Councilor of the Metropolitan District of Quito.
Also attending the ceremony were delegates from member states and officials from the Mission of Ecuador to the OAS, based in Washington.