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 OFFERS SUPPORT TO THE ARGENTINE SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE TO HOLD THE FIRST JUDICIAL CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAS
May 18, 2009
During a meeting that took place today at the Headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington D.C., the President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Argentine Republic, Ricardo Lorenzetti, and the OAS Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza discussed various issues of regional interest, including: the economic and financial crisis and its impact on the region, the current political system and the importance of citizen participation, and the strengthening of the judicial power in OAS member states.
The President of the Argentine Supreme Court of Justice announces d that they are organizing the Judicial Conference of the Americas that will be held in Buenos Aires in September, 2009. Chief Justice Lorenzetti said that the Conference will be attended by Court representatives from all over the region, who will debate issues related to the overall concept of rule of law, including: Supreme Courts management, efficacy of the judicial power, institutional strengthening, separation of powers, and budgetary issues. In this sense, the OAS Secretary General offered institutional support to an initiative that he considered “positive and valuable.”
Lorenzetti affirmed that this Conference will be significant, because “representatives of judicial power will have the opportunity to analyze the current state of the rule of law, its needs, and the ways to make it stronger and more efficient.”
Secretary General Insulza reiterated that “we are interested in developing a relationship between the OAS and the legislative and judicial powers of member states” and stressed the OAS experience in this area and in following on ministerial meetings He also made available the technical tools that the OAS has developed in this area to the Conference organizers.
The Permanent Representative of Argentina to the OAS, Ambassador Rodolfo Gil, and the OAS Secretary for Legal Affairs, Jean Michel Arrighi also attended the meeting.
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