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.
“If terrorism is international, then collaboration must also be international. We must all participate to combat this threat, and I believe that in the Americas we are all participating,” said Insulza. He thanked Ambassador Roberto Alvarez, Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic to the OAS, who presented the treaty’s ratification on behalf of his government.
The Secretary General also underscored the need to remain one step ahead in battling the scourge of terrorism. “It is not enough to combat terrorism; we must stay ahead of its activities to be able to impede them,” Insulza said. He emphasized the important work of the OAS Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (known by its Spanish acronym CICTE), which has been developing coordination measures among member states “to prevent dangerous actions and risks that are always latent in the region.”
The Dominican Ambassador highlighted his government’s commitment to strengthen its judicial system against terrorism, intensify the exchange of information and experiences, and use any opportunity to reinforce cooperation among entities involved in the fight against terrorism.
During the brief ceremony, which was also attended by the Chair of the Permanent Council, Ambassador Henry Illes of Suriname, Alvarez talked about a national anti-terrorism law being debated by his nation’s Congress. “The Dominican Republic will be able to count on more suitable cooperation mechanisms and instruments to prevent, combat and eliminate the threat represented by transnational organized crime and thus consolidate and apply different agreements in this area,” the Ambassador said.
With this ratification, 20 states are party to the Inter-American Convention Against Terrorism, which was adopted in 2002 during the OAS General Assembly in Bridgetown, Barbados. Other member states to ratify the treaty recently include Ecuador, two weeks ago; Grenada, in May; and Guatemala, in March.
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