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 Permanent Council Elevates Draft Resolutions to the General Assembly of Asunción
May 27, 2014
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today approved the elevation of several draft resolutions to the General Assembly of the institution, to be held from June 3 to 5 in Asunción, Paraguay.
In the last regular meeting before the event in Asunción, the Council agreed to elevate to the Assembly draft resolutions previously approved by its General Committee, Committee on Inter-American Summits Management and Civil Society Participation in OAS Activities (CISC), and on Juridical and Political Affairs (CAJP) and Hemispheric Security, as well as open resolutions destined for the General Committee of the Assembly.
In addition, the Council heard an oral presentation on the activities of the CAJP and the General Committee during the past year, as well as a report on the activities of the joint working group of the Council and the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI). Moreover, the Council elevated a draft resolution on the financing of the program budget for the Organization 2015-2016 to the General Committee.
During the meeting, the Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza, took the floor, as did the representatives of Canada, Peru, United States, Dominica, Brazil, Antigua and Barbuda, Panama, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Chile, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Paraguay, Argentina, Honduras, Belize, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Bolivia, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti and Uruguay.
A gallery of photos of the event will be available here.