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.
AT OAS, CHILE REMEMBERS COUP OF SEPTEMBER 11, 1973
September 10, 2003
The overthrow of President Salvador Allende in Chile 30 years ago was remembered as the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) met in regular session Wednesday.
Commenting on the anniversary of the 17-year interruption of democracy in his country, Chile’s Permanent Representative, Ambassador Esteban Tomic, remarked: “September 11, 1973 represents for Chile what September 11, 2001 is for the world: a sudden bend in the road that left behind one view and opened up an entirely new one—for better or for worse.”
In surveying Chile’s socio-political history, Tomic cited as one of the main factors behind the destabilization of his country the inability of the political system to respond to the events and to political players of that era.
Tomic underscored the history-changing September 11 events in the United States two years ago, the same date on which the OAS adopted the Inter-American Democratic Charter, which states in Article 1: “The peoples of the Americas have a right to democracy and their governments have an obligation to promote and defend it.”
He observed that 30 years ago in Chile, “one man paid the ultimate price to defend principles set forth in Article 1 of our Democratic Charter.
“That would be unthinkable today,” he added. “Not because there is a shortage of heroes, but because there are hosts of them. Nothing else explains why we crafted a Democratic Charter and all the mechanisms to more effectively promote and defend democracy in our hemisphere. Thousands, even millions, of human beings today go about their daily lives guided by those values.”