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.
Ambassador Arturo Duarte Ortiz presented credentials Tuesday as the new Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the Organization of American States (OAS), renewing his government's "commitment to the OAS Charter principles and mandates."
"The foundation established in Bogotá back in 1948 is still guiding us as we strive to build a Hemisphere with democracy and equality as the raison d'être of our nations' daily coexistence," Ambassador Duarte declared on presenting the accreditation letters to Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi. Duarte commended the OAS for "laying the foundation for a safer and more peaceful Hemisphere that is free from poverty."
Welcoming Duarte back to the OAS and to issues that have always inspired his professional endeavors, the Assistant Secretary General reviewed "the problems we have to tackle together" and remarked that the Guatemalan diplomat was returning to the OAS with democratic solidarity fully at center stage, not just because of the war on terrorism and corruption but because of the growing move towards integration based on respect for the idiosyncrasies and sovereignty of each nation."
Ambassador Arturo Duarte has served as Director General of International, Multilateral and Economic Relations in the Guatemalan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as Director of the Guatemalan National Indigenous Institute, among other senior positions he has held in his country's Foreign Service.
He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Latin American studies and anthropology from the State University of Albany in New York, State University of Brasilia, Brazil and the State University of San Carlos, Guatemala.