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.
“The United States is deeply committed to the success of the OAS in advancing our shared democratic values, growth and people-focused social development agenda,” the Ambassador stressed, after presenting credentials to the Secretary General. He pledged his delegation’s commitment to work with fellow delegates, the Secretary General and the Secretariat on the important mandates from the hemisphere’s leaders and said, “The political will of the United States will be manifested both in process and in substance.”
Ambassador Maisto also outlined President Bush’s Western Hemisphere policies as “grounded in basic American ideals and values.” He said the policy agenda “places emphasis on promoting democracy and human rights, strengthening democratic institutions, advancing trade and investment as engines for economic growth and job creation, on reducing poverty through strengthening education, health and other basic services; on fighting corruption; on protecting citizens from international and home-grown terrorists, from drug traffickers and money launderers.”
Commenting on today’s remembrances surrounding the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, Ambassador Maisto paid tribute to the immediate solidarity of the hemisphere and its commitment to “continue to protect the freedoms of our people through such instruments as the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism.”
For his part, Secretary General Gaviria expressed appreciation for the renewed U.S. commitment to the expanded OAS agenda and for the U.S. role in helping the Organization remain a relevant hemispheric forum for collective action on critical concerns such as the creation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
Among his career highlights, Maisto has served as Ambassador to Venezuela and to Nicaragua and as Special Assistant to President Bush and Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the National Security Council. He has served previously as Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative to the OAS, from 1989 to 1992. He holds degrees from Georgetown University and Guatemala’s University of San Carlos.
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