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 ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL HOLDS TALKS WITH GUYANESE PRESIDENT BHARRAT JAGDEO
May 21, 2009
Georgetown, Guyana: During a two-day working visit to Guyana, OAS Assistant Secretary General, Ambassador Albert Ramdin held talks with Guyana’s President, the honorable Bharrat Jagdeo. Ambassador Ramdin briefed the President on OAS plans for follow-up to the V Summit of the Americas and the upcoming 39th General Assembly. President Jagdeo discussed plans for his chairmanship of the CARICOM Community Heads of Government during the period July to December 2009 and invited the Assistant Secretary general to work with him in the coming months to explore how Guyana and the OAS could improve collaboration and ensure current OAS mechanisms and programs are optimized to meet the urgent development needs of the people of Guyana.
Within the context of the OAS’ willingness to work with governments and their citizens to strengthen democracy, and consistent with his commitment to listen to all parties, Ambassador Ramdin took the opportunity to meet with leaders of the major political parties in Guyana.
Ambassador Albert Ramdin who arrived in Georgetown on Sunday made a presentation on “the Changing Realities in the Western Hemisphere and the Role of the Caribbean Community Nations in this Dynamic Process” to a group of more than 30 Caribbean diplomats and Foreign Service Officers who were participating in a two-week “regional diplomatic training program for mid-career diplomats. The training program was sponsored by the CARICOM, OAS and Commonwealth Secretariats.