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.
DRAFT HEMISPHERIC DECLARATION ON INDIGENOUS POPLES RIGHTS
MOVING FORWARD
April 22, 2008
Government delegations from member countries along with Organization of American States officials, representatives of indigenous peoples from around the Americas and international experts have emerged from their eleventh negotiation meeting in Washington reporting progress in the quest for consensus in drafting an American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Ambassador Albert Ramdin, the OAS Assistant Secretary General, told the delegates at their weeklong meeting that progress in the eight-year-old negotiation process was crucial, especially following the evaluation session last November aimed to strengthen the process. “It is self evident from current world and regional accounts that this matter cannot continue in a standstill mode,” Ramdin declared, underscoring the need to conclude the negotiation on the Draft American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as soon as possible.
Satisfied with the results of the five-day meeting that concluded at the weekend, Ambassador Jorge Cuadros, Bolivia’s Permanent Representative to the OAS and Chairman of the Working Group to Prepare the Draft American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, noted that eight articles of the Draft American Declaration have been approved to date. Almost six entire articles were approved at this 11th Meeting of Negotiations in the Quest for Points of Consensus.
Ambassador Cuadros said progress was made in areas on which the states and the Indigenous Caucus were strongly in agreement. “On a few articles we have gone even further than the United Nations Declaration,” Cuadros added, citing the OAS Draft Declaration’s specific recognition of spiritual, physical and mental health among the rights of indigenous peoples. “We believe the indigenous worldview of spiritual health is critical, and I am particularly gratified that it was incorporated into this Draft, by consensus,” noted Cuadros, calling it an important accomplishment that also represents a paradigm shift.
A statement issued by the Indigenous Caucus at the closing on Friday evening also hailed the progress achieved in the negotiations on various articles. The Caucus lamented the delays on certain issues crucial to indigenous peoples in the Americas—land, territory, resources, the environment, self-determination and identity among them.
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