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.
Presenting credentials as the new Permanent Observer of Spain to the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Juan Romero de Terreros said today that his government would continue supporting initiatives to provide the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Court the necessary resources to hold sessions throughout the year.
The Spanish diplomat presented his credentials to Acting Secretary General Luigi Einaudi today, emphasizing the importance Spain attaches to those meetings of the OAS human rights bodies. He explained that Spain’s full support for the OAS is based on its view of cooperation as the only means by which certain regions of the Americas can move forward on integration and towards better standards of living for their citizens.”
Ambassador Romero de Terreros noted as well that since 1972, when Spain became the first country to obtain permanent observer status with the OAS, that government has remained a very active permanent observer as evidenced by its contributions, particularly to four main operational areas of the OAS, covering: human rights; democratic and political affairs; integral cooperation; and multidimensional security. He also cited the priority attached to supporting OAS initiatives to combat extreme poverty and social exclusion in the Americas.
For his part, the Acting Secretary General welcomed the Spanish government’s new envoy, and expressed appreciation for Spain’s important collaboration over the years. In that regard, Einaudi touched on Spanish collaboration on joint OAS/United Nations initiatives in Haiti, among other examples, and underscored the importance of knowing that “Spain stands by us and supports us.”