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.
First-ever consultations between the Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Union (EU) reviewed a range of Western Hemisphere issues on which the two entities could increase cooperation, OAS Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi said.
The eight-member EU delegation that visited OAS headquarters on Wednesday was headed by Italy, which holds the EU presidency and was represented by Ambassador Ludovico Ortona, Director General for the Americas in Italy’s Foreign Affairs Ministry. Ireland, which will succeed Italy to the EU presidency in January, was represented by Patrick Walshe, Assistant Secretary General of Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs. Representatives of the European Commission and the EU Council also attended.
The talks revealed a surprising number of areas that lend themselves to greater cooperation between the OAS and the EU, from general principles such as democratic governance and human rights to specific projects geared to combat terrorism and drug trafficking, Einaudi and Ortona agreed. They said the two organizations would continue consultations and explore the possibility of developing a formal framework for cooperation.
The EU delegation first met with the OAS political bodies, led by the Permanent Council Chairman, Ambassador Raymond Valcin of Haiti, and ambassadors representing the hemisphere’s sub-regions: the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI), the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Central American Group (GRUCA), as well as Canada and the United States. The EU representatives then met with directors of key units within the OAS General Secretariat to discuss current inter-American projects and activities.
“We hope this is the beginning of a deeper relationship between the OAS and the EU, which already have a history of cooperation,” Einaudi said. He added that the OAS would invite EU representatives to attend a meeting of experts on democratic governance, scheduled for November.
In the last five years, the EU has contributed several million dollars toward OAS projects, including anti-narcotics initiatives, election observation, sustainable development efforts, and special missions to Venezuela and Haiti. Fourteen of the 15 EU member states have permanent observer status with the OAS. The EU itself obtained OAS observer status on November 18, 1989.
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