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 AND UNCTAD ORGANIZE ADVANCED TRAINING COURSE ON MANAGING INVESTMENT DISPUTES
October 11, 2006
The Second Advanced Training Course on Managing Investment Disputes opens today in Puebla, Mexico, with the participation of officials who are directly involved in implementing international investment treaties and resolving related disputes.
The Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) are jointly organizing the course, which runs until October 20, at the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Secretariat in Puebla.
The intensive course will provide participants with in-depth analysis on key issues related to investor-state dispute management. It is being organized in conjunction with the Mexican Secretariat of the Economy, with financial support from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Spain’s Industry, Tourism and Trade Ministry, and the OAS. Among topics to be covered by experts:
· Trends, treaty practice and key substantive issues
· The art and science of managing investment treaty disputes
· Covered investments and dispute settlement rules
· The use of investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms to settle trade disputes
· Protection of investments: Fair and equitable treatment/minimum standard of treatment, and
· Full protection and security: Recent Decisions/Treaty Practice
The opening ceremony today included the participation of Mario Marin Torres, Governor of the state of Puebla, as well as Alejandro Faya Rodríguez, from Mexico’s Economy Secretariat; Jorge Mattar, of the United Nations Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Mexico; Rafael Zabalza, President, Spanish Chamber of Commerce of Puebla and Tlaxcala; Maryse Robert, Acting Chief, OAS Trade Section and course coordinator; and Anna Joubin-Bret, senior UNCTAD legal adviser and course coordinator.
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