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.
HIGH LEVEL JUSTICE OFFICIALS FROM THE HEMISPHERE TO MEET IN COLOMBIA
September 10, 2007
High level justice authorities from the hemisphere will meet September 12 to 14 in Bogotá, Colombia, to further their cooperation in areas such as extradition and strengthening mutual assistance in criminal matters in the region.
The Third Meeting of Central Authorities and Other Experts on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters and Extradition, which will be held under the auspices of the Organization of American States (OAS) in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), will also cover the recent progress in relation to the Hemispheric Information Exchange Network for Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters and Extradition, which aims at increasing and improving the exchange of information among OAS Member States.
The Attorney General of Colombia, Mario Germán Iguarán, will open the meeting taking place in the Colombian Capital, at 9 a.m. on Wednesday. The Colombian Minister of the Interior and Justice, Carlos Holguín Sardi, and the representative of the OAS Secretary General, Jean Michel Arrighi, will also participate in the inaugural session.
The OAS is responsible for convening ministerial meetings in different government sectors, in order to strengthen hemispheric cooperation and ensure implementation at the national level of policies adopted by the OAS political bodies and by the Summits of the Americas. The Bogotá meeting falls within the framework of the process of cooperation on judicial issues began in 1997. The last ministerial meeting took place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in April, 2007.