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.
MEETING IN BRAZIL SEEKS TO STRENGTHEN COOPERATION IN CRIMINAL MATTERS
August 31, 2005
The Organization of American States (OAS) and Brazil’s Ministry of Justice will hold a high-level meeting in Brasilia from September 1-3, to strengthen hemispheric cooperation in criminal matters and extradition, as part of the effort to combat transnational organized crime, money laundering, terrorism and other crimes.
The Minister of Justice of Brazil, Márcio Thomaz Bastos, and Brazilian Attorney General Antonio Fernando de Souza will participate in the opening of the Second Meeting of Central Authorities and Experts in Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters and Extradition in OAS Member States.
Such meetings intensify cooperation among national authorities who are responsible for sending and receiving extradition requests, and promote mutual legal assistance in such areas as sharing evidence required to investigate and prosecute crimes.
Since this process began two years ago, with the first meeting in Ottawa, Canada, the hemisphere’s national authorities in this field have established an information-sharing system through an Internet site managed by the OAS, which includes public and secure private components. The authorities have also compiled “best practices” and drafted model legislation for transmitting requests, among other tasks.
The meeting in Brasilia responds to a mandate from the last Meeting of Ministers of Justice and Attorneys General of the Americas and a resolution of the OAS General Assembly. During its most recent session, held in June in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the General Assembly called on the OAS member states to strengthen cooperation against transnational organized crime, including drug trafficking, money laundering, illicit arms trafficking, trafficking in persons, smuggling of migrants, cyber-crime, criminal youth gangs, kidnapping, and corruption, as well as connections between terrorism and these manifestations.
The opening of the meeting will take place this Thursday, September 1, at 9:00 a.m., in the Conference Hall at Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia.
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