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.
Bolivian Foreign Minister to preside at XLII OAS General Assembly
June 4, 2012
Bolivia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, David Choquehuanca, as host country representative, was elected today to preside over the forty-second regular session of the Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly.
Mr. Choquehuanca’s election as President of the General Assembly took place at the first plenary session, held at the Hotel Regina de Tiquipaya, in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Venezuela’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Nicolás Maduro, served as provisional president to formally begin the first plenary session. He was elected in keeping with the order of precedence set forth in the rules of procedure of the General Assembly. The Venezuelan Minister expressed confidence that the new President would provide “very productive” leadership of the sessions.
For his part, Minister Choquehuanca extended to the member state representatives a “welcome from the heart of the Americas,” wishing them “an enjoyable stay befitting the traditional hospitality of the Bolivian people.” He expressed appreciation for his election as President of this Assembly, noting “the important work we will be undertaking together.”
Minister Choquehuanca urged the delegates “to transcend our limited special interests as nations and peoples, as communities and individuals,” arguing that “there is still time for us to build confidence, responsibility, and solidarity at the hemispheric level.”
The first plenary session, in which OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza also participated, adopted the agenda for the two-day meeting and installed the General Committee, to be chaired by the Permanent Representative of Honduras to the hemispheric organization, Ambassador Leónidas Rosa Bautista, who is also the current Chair of the organization’s Permanent Council.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.