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 CONCERNED ABOUT HURRICANES’ HAVOC ON CARIBBEAN
July 14, 2005
Hurricanes currently beating down on several Caribbean countries are a major concern to the Organization of American States, with Secretary General José Miguel Insulza today expressing sympathy over the loss of life in Haiti and other countries in the Caribbean. Particular concern was expressed over the impact of hurricane Emily on Grenada.
The Secretary General said the OAS has already begun consultations with the mechanisms of the inter-American system and with other key international bodies to determine what assistance can be rendered. “We are very much seized of the troubling development of hurricanes,” said Insulza, noting the organization is also “mindful that these storms have come very early in the season this year.” He expressed particular concern that the present storms, such as Emily—but also those that are yet to come—could deal a severe economic setback to several countries because the hurricane phenomena have been widely observed to be increasing in intensity in recent years, and there is still a long way before the end of the traditional hurricane season.
The OAS’ concern also revolves around the potential reach of these natural disasters—into Central America, Mexico and the United States as well—and the resulting loss of life witnessed especially in recent years, the Secretary General stated, emphasizing that “their impact could be substantial in terms of the human and material cost for countries for this month and the coming months.”
A meeting of the OAS Inter-American Committee on Natural Disaster Reduction, Subcommittee on Response and Preparedness, is being convened for tomorrow, Friday July 15, to review the action of each agency in disaster situation and analyze whether any changes are required based on the experience of the hurricanes of 2004