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.
CONDITIONS DO NOT MEET REQUIREMENTS TO INVOKE ARTICLE 18 OF THE INTERAMERICAN DEMOCRATIC CHARTER
July 12, 2007
On June 19 the United States Permanent Mission to the Organization of American States (OAS), citing Articles 4 and 18 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, urged Secretary General José Miguel Insulza to “make every effort to visit Venezuela to consult in good faith with all interested parties in the case of Radio Caracas TV (RCTV), or consider other actions to address the situation, and to make a full report to the foreign ministers through the Permanent Council at the earliest opportunity.”
The application of Article 18 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter requires “the consent of the government concerned.” Accordingly, Secretary General Insulza requested the consent of the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, to undertake the appropriate measures.
On July 9, the Venezuelan delegation conveyed that Government’s response, which stated that it deems the request form the United States of America “totally unacceptable.” The Secretary General then informed the US government that it could not meet such a request.
In the inter-American system, issues concerning freedom of expression which are enshrined in Article 4 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, as “essential components of the exercise of democracy,” can be addressed in two ways: between governments, which requires their mandatory prior consent; or by the affected parties petitioning their case before the bodies protecting those rights, the Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The Commission will now hear, during its initial phase, a petition presented relating to the issue of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV)
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