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.
Ambassador Izben Williams, St. Kitts and Nevis’ Permanent Representative, is the new chairman of the Organization of American States’ (OAS) Permanent Council. He assumed the rotating Chairmanship today, emphasizing the important hemispheric focus on reinforcing the pillars of democracy “so they can offer to our people the promise that we have assured them we will deliver.”
During a brief ceremony at OAS headquarters, Ambassador Williams received the gavel from his Dominican Republic counterpart, Ambassador Roberto Alvarez, who pledged full support to his successor. The Permanent Council’s Vice Chair meanwhile falls to Venezuela’s Ambassador, Jorge Valero.
In outlining his broad vision, Ambassador Williams touched on “very critical issues” that must be addressed as pillars on which democracy must stand,” elaborating that “democracy is nothing unless it has firm pillars on which to stand.” He identified poverty alleviation and the creation of decent jobs for people among crucial issues needing urgent treatment, and lamented that poverty has grown worse than it was five years ago.
Noting that OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza and Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin “have outlined a bold agenda for us,” Williams also pointed to the upcoming fourth Summit of the Americas slated for Mar del Plata, Argentina, where the hemisphere’s presidents and prime ministers will be addressing critical issues.
St. Kitts and Nevis’ Permanent Council chairmanship marks the second in a succession of Caribbean nations at the helm of the OAS’ second highest decision-making body up to the end of next year, and this prestigious three-month chairmanship holds a “singular honor” for St. Kitts and Nevis, the Western Hemisphere’s smallest nation-state, the Ambassador said.
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