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.
The Organization of American States (OAS) will begin, in Bogotá, Colombia, a course for 30 soldiers specialized in humanitarian landmine-clearing operations in that country. The course, geared towards the military "sappers," seeks to strengthen mine-clearing operations that already exist in Colombia and will be offered by a group of international supervisors.
The OAS is collaborating with that country’s Antipersonnel Landmines Observatory on the three-week course, which begins September 19.
According to a study carried out by Colombia’s National Department of Planning, illegal armed groups have planted over 50,000 antipersonnel landmines. Since 1990, landmines have been responsible for more than 3,000 reported victims, of whom 743 have been killed and 2,397 have been mutilated, according to data from the Observatory.
The OAS signed an agreement with Colombia two years ago to support humanitarian activities against antipersonnel landmines. The OAS Mine Action Program coordinates landmine-clearing operations in different Central and South American nations. The Inter-American Defense Board is the technical entity in charge of supervising these operations in accordance to international security norms.
Since 1991, the program has received approximately $50 million from some twenty donor countries and diverse nongovernmental organizations.
Colombia destroyed its entire stockpiled landmines last year, in compliance with the Ottawa Convention, a global anti-landmine agreement which that country ratified in March 2001.
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