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.
ECUADOR ENVOY SEEKS HEMISPHERIC SOLIDARITY AROUND POLITICAL CHANGE IN HIS COUNTRY
June 27, 2007
Seeking hemispheric support for the political thrust by Ecuador’s government, Ambassador Efrén Cocios has told the Organization of American States (OAS) Permanent Council that President Rafael Correa is aiming to “enrich and deepen Ecuador’s democratic culture, giving substance and real life to that culture as well as to the principles and rules of a participatory democracy that includes everyone, rather than just the elite.”
In his first address to the OAS’ second highest decision-making body, Ambassador Cocios told his colleague ambassadors of the member states about the effort by Ecuadorians and their “freely and democratically-elected government,” inviting the hemispheric Permanent Council members to apply the inter-American principles, instruments, programs and cooperation and support mechanisms to jointly encourage, stimulate and support his country’s “democratic and sovereign endeavor.”
The Ecuadorian Permanent Representative to the OAS cited the new manifestations of democracy since the November 2006 presidential elections and the April 2007 referendum, noting that his compatriots freely and unequivocally expressed their sovereign will in such a manner that cannot be denied by any of the complaints making the rounds in international organizations.
However, Cocios noted, “as we would have learned from history, this transformation enterprise has not been without controversy, problem or concern, because any new order will cause pain and division and sometimes even destroys the old order that delivered privileges to only a few while the majority suffered marginalization,” the Ecuadorian envoy told the Permanent Council, chaired by Venezuela’s Ambassador Jorge Valero.
He stressed the importance of the Constituent National Assembly established by Ecuador’s electoral authorities after it won an almost 80 per cent majority approval by the voters. Its members will be elected next September, Ambassador Efrén Cocios stated, adding that it will represent “an enabling, democratic and plural forum wherein the new legal and institutional order—yearned for by Ecuadorians—will be drawn up.”
The representatives of the regional blocs extended a warm welcome to the new Ecuadorian envoy, praising his personal qualities as well as his professional and political skills.