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.
GUATEMALA: INTENSE ROUND OF CONVERSATIONS HELD BY OAS SECRETARY GENERAL
May 26, 2009
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, arrived Sunday night in Guatemala and did an intense round of interviews that included political, social and business actors. The meeting sessions focused on the situation that the country is going through after the murder of attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg, and that has disturbed the Guatemalan society.
In his visit Insulza, who traveled accompanied by the OAS Secretary for Political Affairs, Victor Rico, had fourteen meetings, including the President of the Republic, Álvaro Colom; the Vice-president Rafael Espada; the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Haroldo Rodas; the Chief of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), Carlos Castresana; the youth members of the Nationalist Civic Movement; the President of the Supreme Court of Justice, Rubén Elíu Higüeros; the President of the Congress, Roberto Alejos; the Attorney General, Amilcar Velásquez; the members of the National Agreement Verification Commission; former presidential candidate, Otto Pérez Molina; Mr. Eduardo Rodas Marzano, Attorney Rosenberg’s brother; Deputy Nineth Montenegro; members of the Coordination Committee of Agricultural, Commercial, and Financial Associations; Nobel Peace Prize, Rigoberta Menchú; the Coordinator of the Commission of Justice; and the ambassadors of the Group of Dialogue for the Cooperation with Guatemala (Canada, United Sates, Spain, and Sweden).
Insulza focuses his concern on the support of the hemispheric organization to democratic institutions; the respect for the work carried out by public authorities democratically elected; and his unconditional support for the work carried out by the CICIG to clarify the facts.
The OAS Secretary General highlighted the need to appease all sides in this complex situation created after several killings and a videotape recorded by Mr. Rosenberg, to build confidence and to start a dialogue that should lead to closer positions.
In this context, and with everyone’s will, he said, “there might be an opportunity for a deep reform of the judicial system that guarantees higher transparency and enables to fight impunity.”
Furthermore, Insulza stressed the need to provide the judicial system with the budgetary resources and a regulatory framework that brings security and guarantees observance of the law.
The Secretary General is returning today to Washington D.C.