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 OAS AND THE UN SIGN AGREEMENT
TO COMBAT MALNUTRITION IN THE REGION
September 13, 2007
The Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations (UN) signed an agreement today paving the way for both organizations to work together to combat hunger and malnutrition in children, and to strengthen response mechanisms during social and natural disaster emergencies in the region.
During the signing ceremony at OAS headquarters in Washington, the Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza, reiterated that the regional body is committed to combat this and other problems such as the inequalities to the access of education and health, which also affect the poorest sectors of the region.
“The issue of malnutrition in children is a drama that should not occur in any part of the world, even less in our region, where we have the resources and the regional revenue to prevent it from happening,” Insulza pointed out.
The head of the OAS emphasized that “this is not a poor continent; this region has per capita revenue close to the global average, and nevertheless we still have an enormous amount of people that suffer from hunger.”
The Regional Director of the UN World Food Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean, Pedro Medrano, said that both organizations “have many opportunities to work together and support the countries of the region to achieve the Millennium Development Goal No. 2—to reduce by half the number of people suffering from hunger.”
According to studies by the World Food Programme and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) , some nine million children under the age of five suffer from chronic malnutrition in the region. The problem is principally centered in the indigenous populations, where chronic malnutrition can affect in some cases up to 70 or 80 percent of children.
The last OAS General Assembly, held in Panama in June of this year, entrusted the member countries to place malnutrition in children as a priority issue in their respective agendas.
The Chairman of Argentina’s White Helmets Commission, Gabriel Fuks, who also participated in today’s event, underscored the OAS Secretary General’s efforts in this area, noting that “beyond his role, there is a man that has understood the necessity to dynamize, to give flexibility, to understand the new realities and to incorporate all those tools that can be useful to this complex and changing world that we live in.”
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