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 city of Antigua, Guatemala, will welcome on October 10, representatives of the member countries of the Organization of the American States (OAS) and of indigenous organizations and peoples of the Americas, to continue drafting the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin and the Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the OAS, Ambassador Francisco Villagrán, signed an agreement Friday afternoon finalizing the venue for the sixth meeting of negotiations to seek consensus of the Working Group to Prepare the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The meeting, which will take place October 10-14, will mark the first time that the working group meets outside of OAS headquarters in Washington.
Ambassador Villagrán said that his country has high expectations for the results of the meeting and underscored the “great satisfaction for the opportunity to welcome representatives of indigenous peoples and representatives from member states in this joint and groundbreaking effort to negotiate an American declaration on indigenous peoples”.
“The participation of representatives of indigenous peoples has been expanded, and they have a more direct and active involvement in the discussions and negotiations,” Villagrán said, adding that “the people and government of Guatemala are pleased to have reached the agreement allowing the meeting to take place in our country.” The working group will be chaired by the Alternate Representative of Guatemala to the OAS, Ambassador Juan Leon.
Ambassador Villagrán confirmed a national meeting of indigenous peoples of Guatemala, October 5-7, which will include Mayan, Garífuna and Xinka representatives. Participants in this meeting will exchange and distribute information on the draft declaration and the sixth meeting of negotiations.
The national encounter will be carried out in accordance with a resolution adopted in June by the OAS General Assembly, in Fort Lauderdale, in which the foreign ministers of the Americas invited the governments of the member states to consult with the respective indigenous peoples regarding the draft declaration, and to foster an exchange on these consultations among the countries. The same resolution called for intensifying the negotiation sessions in order to conclude the American Declaration of the Indigenous Peoples.
Also in the city of Antigua, a Conclave of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas will take place October 7-9.
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