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 SECRETARY GENERAL AND MINISTER OF FOREIGN RELATIONS OF HONDURAS DISCUSS OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY
May 4, 2009
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, welcomed Monday the Minister of Foreign Relations of Honduras, Patricia Rodas, in a meeting focused on the upcoming OAS General Assembly, June 2-3 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
Minister Rodas stressed to Secretary General Insulza the “enormous enthusiasm” that Honduras is showing to prepare the annual meeting of the hemispheric institution. She also wished that all Member States will be represented in San Pedro Sula at the highest level.
Minister Rodas emphasized her wish that the OAS, and particularly the Secretary General, work actively as promoters towards the success of the General Assembly. “I am convinced that the Secretary General will exercise his well known leadership in the continent and he will guide us with ideas,” she said.
Minister Rodas also explained the latest developments on negotiations for a declaration to be ratified by all 34 Member States in the Assembly, where the main theme will be “Towards a culture of nonviolence.” The Honduran delegation said they would like the Declaration of San Pedro de Sula to be “short, precise and straightforward.”
Secretary General Insulza and Minister Rodas met first in private in Insulza’s office at the OAS Headquarters in Washington, DC. They were joined later by the Ambassador of Honduras to Washington, Roberto Flores Bermúdez, the Permanent Representative of Honduras to the OAS, Carlos Sosa, and the National General Coordinator for the General Assembly, Ambassador Leslie C. Martínez, among others.
Minister Rodas will be until Wednesday in Washington on official visit to discuss “political, operative details, also related to infrastructure and logistics” of the General Assembly, an event she would like to reach “historic” proportions. The Honduran Minister of Foreign Relations said her country awaits with “enormous expectation” the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the 34 active OAS Member States.
“This General Assembly could be key to the future of the Organization of American States, because a new type of political dialogue in the continent might be born then,” she said.
In her visit to the OAS, Minister Rodas also met with the OAS Assistant Secretary General, Ambassador Albert Ramdin, the President of the Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Canada, Graeme Clark, and representatives from regional groups.