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.
UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, SAINT LUCIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, UNDERSCORES TO OAS CONCERN OVER DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES
November 19, 2003
Underlining important common objectives and agenda priorities the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations (UN) share, the President of the 58th UN General Assembly Session, Saint Lucia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Julian Hunte, has identified development and prosperity as continuing challenges facing countries and regions early in the 21st century.
“Increasingly, states are recognizing, by bitter experience, the relationship between poverty worldwide and issues such as inequity in the global economic system,” Hunte told a session of the OAS Permanent Council today. He also referred to the ravages of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, conflicts within nations and environmental degradation.
Minister Hunte, the first UN General Assembly President to ever address an OAS Permanent Council meeting, lamented the failure of globalization and free trade to deliver on the promise of prosperity to especially small developing nations. “The conventional wisdom was that the economy of all states would be greatly improved,” he said. “Yet, the reality for many in the developing world, including in our hemisphere, is that their economic and social situation continues to deteriorate, and poverty continues to rise.”
Hunte also lauded developing nations for championing their own cause, and noted how they have garnered tremendous support on the issues affecting them.
He also described rising terrorism as “a disturbing trend,” saying multilateral cooperation has a crucial role in fighting the threat. He cited direct threats targeting UN agencies and staff.
In his wide-ranging presentation to the OAS member state representatives, Hunte underscored important synergies between the work of the OAS and the work of the UN, praising the OAS for its pioneering initiatives on key global agenda issues, among them important instruments such as the Treaty of Tlatelolco that established the world’s first nuclear-free zone. He noted as well the OAS’ ground-breaking anti-corruption convention.
Permanent Council Chairman Ambassador Salvador Rodezno of Honduras welcomed the UN dignitary, explaining that the visit stemmed from an initiative by the preceding Council Chairman, Haiti’s Permanent Representative to the OAS Ambassador Raymond Valcin, to invite the UN General Assembly President to share ideas related to issues on the hemispheric agenda.
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