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.
ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES’ INDEPENDENCE JUBILEE
SHOWCASED IN WASHINGTON WITH ART, CRAFT AND MUSIC
October 28, 2004
St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ twenty fifth anniversary of independence took center stage in Washington Wednesday, Independence Day, with the opening of art an exhibition and a concert by two of the nation’s top singers—calypso monarch Princess Monique and international recording artiste Kevin Little, the latter signed to Atlantic Records. Other Washington festivities to mark the Vincentian silver jubilee include a gala affair this coming Saturday night.
Ambassador Ellsworth John kicked off the Washington celebrations at the Organization of American States (OAS) headquarters, emphasizing among hallmarks of his nation’s progress the tradition of building on political and other achievements of successive administrations of government. “We have had three administrations in St. Vincent and the Grenadines [since independence from Britain], and each administration has built on the success of the previous administration,” asserted John, who is ambassador to the OAS and to the United States. Noting that this tradition holds true not only for his nation but also for the rest of the Caribbean, Ambassador John added: “The only reason we have been able to succeed as individual nations is that we consider ourselves a community.”
He said the way forward for each nation in the Americas rests with maintaining that momentum at the hemispheric level, with all 35 OAS member countries seeing themselves as a community and seeing to it that the weakest not get weaker. “Only then can we elevate each country to be free from poverty, free from strife and strong on democracy,” the Vincentian envoy told the Vincentians, Caribbean nationals and friends that gathered.
In opening the artistic exhibition, John noted how the items on display speak to the richness of his country’s natural resources and its artistic tradition. “The craft items utilize some of the natural resources that we have in St. Vincent and the Grenadines,” he said, pointing to featured items that include baskets, pictures and other craft items made from the bark of the banana tree, as well as paintings and dolls that, he said, bear testimony to the artistic skills of the Vincentian people.
The collection of art and craft, that will be on display at the OAS until October 30, was produced by a variety of crafts people—all based in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
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