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.
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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 GILLIAN BRISTOL IS THE NEW REPRESENTATIVE OF GRENADA TO THE OAS
July 10, 2009
Ambassador Gillian Bristol presented today her credentials to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Jose Miguel Insulza, as the Permanent Representative of Grenada to the institution. The ceremony took place at the headquarters of the Organization in Washington, D.C.
Addressing a group of ambassadors who attended the event, the new representative of Grenada to the regional organization reiterated her government’s commitment to the principles of the OAS Charter. “Grenada, as the other nations that are part CARICOM, shares the principles of democracy, non intervention, respect to the rule of law and human rights that the organization promotes”, she said.
Ambassador Bristol also added that under the leadership of Prime Minister Tilliman Thomas, “Grenada will continue to work so that the Americas can truly be a bastion of equality and a shinning light for the rest of the world; and to promote the themes and priorities that affect the small island states.”
Ambassador Bristol, whom before her appointment had worked for more than 15 years in the OAS General Secretariat, declared that her country “remains firm to cooperate with the member states, the Secretary General and the Assistant Secretary General, in the efforts of strengthening the value and existence of the Organization.”
Welcoming Ambassador Bristol, the Secretary General Insulza, highlighted her “capacity, strength, intelligence, and courtesy in the defense of the interests of whom she represents.”
Insulza also took this opportunity to refer to the leadership role that CARICOM has recently taken in issues related to the hemispheric agenda and remarked that the Caribbean governments “have a clear and constructive vision of the problems that affect the region.” He also affirmed that “given Ambassador Bristol’s broad experience and knowledge of the system and of the Organization, her presence will definitively mark a difference.”
Ambassador Bristol has a law degree from the University of West Indies in Cave Hill, Barbados. Since 1992 she has been involved in matters of hemispheric politics and security. She worked as secretary of several committees of the OAS Permanent Council, in meetings related to the General Assembly, and as Program Manager at the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE).