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.
Representatives of the Organization of American States (OAS) will participate next week in a major worldwide conference on demining, where they will highlight the important advances the countries of the Americas have made in eradicating antipersonnel landmines. More than 200 countries will be represented at the First Review Conference of the Ottawa Convention, which begins November 29 in Kenya.
Key achievements for the countries of the Americas include the destruction of more than one million landmines that had been stockpiled in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.
The Central American region has also made considerable progress in demining. In 2002, Costa Rica became the first country supported by the OAS Mine Action Program to be declared “landmine-safe,” and Honduras was given the same technical designation last month. El Salvador completed its demining process in 1993, in accordance with that country’s peace accords. Nicaragua and Guatemala have also made progress in demining and the destruction of unexploded ordnance, and both countries are expected to conclude these activities in the next two years.
The OAS will be represented by a delegation led by William A. McDonough, who coordinates the Mine Action Program. Through this program, the OAS has supported multifaceted efforts, including preventive education, humanitarian demining, destruction of stockpiles, rehabilitation of landmine victims, and development of data bases. The military entity that works closely with the OAS on demining is the Inter-American Defense Board.
During a meeting of the Permanent Council in September, Nicaraguan Defense Minister José Adán Guerra remarked that “mine action does not end with the last mine destroyed or removed, and it should be complemented with concrete programs to support victims who survive these deadly devices.”
The OAS has received more than $27 million in donations for its landmine activities since it began working in this field in 1991. Among the donors that have supported this effort are Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, El Salvador, Guatemala, Italy, Japan, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United States.