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 donation will finance a project aimed at increasing the number of cases that are submitted from the Commission, which is based at OAS headquarters in Washington, to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, based in San Jose, Costa Rica. The contribution will enable the Commission to hire a full-time lawyer and pay certain expenses associated with each case.
Commission Chairman José Zalaquett accepted the donation from Spain’s Permanent Observer to the OAS, Ambassador Eduardo Gutiérrez Sáenz de Buruaga. The Spanish Ambassador stressed that the inter-American human rights system has “delivered to many people the justice they would not have found at a national level.”
Gutiérrez Sáenz de Buruaga said that the Commission and the Court are important not only because of their legal decisions, but because of the “dissuasive” effect they exercise on potential violators of human rights.
Zalaquett said that although human rights problems continue in the hemisphere, today there is a greater “spirit of cooperation” in addressing the issue. Referring to Spain’s contribution, he said that “this cooperation will enable us to expand the access of justice to human rights victims who have been unable to obtain legal remedy.”