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.
PARAGUAY’S PRESIDENT TELLS OAS OF
COMMITMENT TO ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN
September 25, 2003
Paraguay’s President, Nicanor Duarte Frutos, speaking at the Organization of American States (OAS) today, cited the campaign against corruption in his country as central to the war on poverty and social inequity.
“Paraguay is experiencing a political, moral and ethical rebirth after a long history of corruption and shattered dreams,” the Paraguayan leader told member state ambassadors at a protocolary session of the OAS Permanent Council, called in his honor. He outlined his government’s three-pronged anti-corruption drive, centered on transparency, public service evaluation and social responsibility.
President Duarte Frutos said, “Poverty will end when democracy emerges in our countries.” He warned that “unless we can tackle social inequity, poverty and corruption in our regions, demagogic nationalism could return and our region could see a strange kind of militarism reappear.”
Pointing to the need for a sincere war on poverty, the Paraguayan President added, “We do not want to be viewed merely as markets but rather as communities—as human beings with aspirations and dreams.” He said “those who have more must understand that people are more important than markets.”
That is why Paraguay is emphasizing the need to forge a new kind of state with moral authority, he went on to state. “If the state has no moral authority, what market economy is there? If governments are held captive to lobbyists and big corporations, and if leaders are committed to certain economic interest groups, what free market can there be without a state or government having moral authority?”
The President expressed appreciation for the role the OAS and its Secretary General, César Gaviria, at critical junctures in his country’s history. He said his country’s democracy has been bolstered, thanks to support from the hemispheric organization.
For his part, the Permanent Council Chairman, Haiti’s Ambassador Raymond Valcin, lauded the priorities established by the Paraguayan President, noting that they are perfectly in line with the hemispheric perspective on public ethics. He noted the important stress on fighting poverty as well, referring to the upcoming anti-poverty conference slated for the Venezuelan island of Margarita, next October.
In welcoming the Paraguay President, OAS Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi restated the importance of the ambitious reform process to provide Paraguayans with the tools to promote a new and responsible economic model aimed at enhancing “the moral healing of democratic institutions.”
Einaudi reiterated as well the Organization’s support to help Paraguay “towards a destiny of well-being, peace and democracy.”
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