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.
US COMMERCE SECRETARY CALLS FOR ELIMINATING TRADE BARRIERS AND PROMOTING FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS IN THE AMERICAS
September 30, 2005
The United States Secretary of Commerce, Carlos Gutierrez, expressed today his government’s vision for a free trade region with greater economic opportunities, during a speech to the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS).
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza underlined the importance of the Commerce Secretary’s visit prior to the Summit of the Americas, which will take place in Argentina in November.
Insulza highlighted the challenges faced in the hemisphere during the last three years, in terms of economic growth, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, saying that the main challenge in the future will be how to maintain and increase this growth.
“Working together with governments, international financial organizations, and with the private sector we might be able to sustain reforms in the different countries of the region, which will allow development, and strengthen governance that will create an adequate climate of investment,” Insulza said.
Secretary Gutierrez underscored the opportunities that regional trade agreements bring to the region saying that they “build more open and secure societies.” By bringing economic growth to the region, these trade agreements will help build a vibrant middle class and higher living standards he explained.
“The dream that we all pursuit, is prosperity for our peoples. It is the hope for a safe and peaceful environment,” he said. “If we can make that dream real throughout the hemisphere; we can make the Americas the foremost economic region in the world.” Gutierrez added that there are still unnecessary barriers that compromise regional competitiveness and emphasized the need to “make the flow of commerce within the Americas both safe and seamless.”
Gutierrez informed the member countries that he will be leading a business developing mission next month to Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador which he hopes will result in “more investment, more trade, and eventually more jobs in the United States and in Central America,” he said.
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