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.
OAS URGES INCREASE IN FINANCIAL COOPERATION
TO FINALIZE DEMINING IN LATIN AMERICA
September 21, 2005
The member countries of the Organization of American States (OAS) called on the international community to provide the financial support necessary to finalize mine-clearing operations in Central and South America, after hearing a report from (Ret.) Col. Carl Case, Principal Specialist of the OAS Mine Action Program.
During a meeting yesterday of the OAS Committee on Hemispheric Security, Case said financial contributions this year have fallen “significantly short” of a projected budget of nearly $6.5 million. “Currently, approximately $500,000 are needed to avoid the imminent suspension of support in three programs,” said Case, referring to activities underway in Guatemala, Peru and Nicaragua.
Demining operations have already concluded in Costa Rica, Honduras and Suriname, and are scheduled to be completed in Guatemala this year.
The report estimated that some $13.2 million would be needed for the 2006-2007 cycle, so operations could continue in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Peru. Case noted that a course on antipersonnel landmine destruction is currently being offered to military sappers in Colombia.
In addition to supporting mine-clearing operations, the OAS Mine Action Program provides preventive education and assistance to survivors. As a result of these efforts, Case said, more than 700 people have received physical and psychological rehabilitation and of these, nearly 200 have received job training and placement in the work force. The retired colonel said a similar job-training and placement program is being planned for Guatemala, once mine-clearing operations conclude in that country.
In addition to buried landmines, more than one million stockpiled mines have been destroyed with the help of the OAS and the Inter-American Defense Board in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Peru. Since the OAS embarked on demining efforts in 1991, more than 20 countries have contributed some $47 million to the program.
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