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.
OAS MISSION TO SUPPORT COLOMBIAN PEACE PROCESS PRESENTS REPORT
December 8, 2004
The presence of the Organization of American States (OAS) in the Colombian peace process is contributing to the transparency and credibility of the efforts underway in that country to bring about a lasting peace, the OAS Permanent Council was told today.
“This Organization’s decision to accompany the peace process has opened up important political possibilities for the Colombian government” and has helped gain the support of other countries for the process, said the Director of the OAS Department of Democratic and Political Affairs, John Biehl.
Biehl said that during a recent visit to the country he had met with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and other high-level authorities, as well as with civil society representatives, and had confirmed the importance of the OAS role in the process. He thanked various countries for their financial contributions to the OAS efforts in Colombia, among them the Bahamas, Colombia itself, Holland, Sweden and the United States.
In his quarterly report to the Permanent Council, the Director of the Mission to Support the Peace Process in Colombia, Sergio Caramagna, said that during the last two months of this year, more than 3,000 members of a paramilitary group, Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, will have been demobilized, which he called “an unprecedented feat in the history of the Colombian conflict.” The involvement of the OAS, he said, can strengthen the peace process and help make it sustainable and long-term.
The OAS has had a presence in the demobilization zones, supporting the preparatory tasks and verifying the lists of individuals and weapons. Caramagna said the OAS mission is also following the process of identifying individuals with accusations against them, and he underscored the need to define the legal situation in these cases. The OAS is also listening to the concerns of the indigenous communities that have been affected by the conflict, Caramagna said, adding that the mission is working closely with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
During the Permanent Council session, chaired by Ambassador Aristides Royo of Panama, the ambassadors of several countries expressed their support for the OAS mission and for the peace process in Colombia.
The Alternate Representative of Colombia to the OAS, Minister María Clara Isaza, thanked the OAS and affirmed that its role in the peace process is helping to generate confidence and calm in the communities where the demobilization process is taking place.
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