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.
Achieving peace in Colombia is vital for stability in Latin America and a key issue for the Organization of American States (OAS), Secretary General José Miguel Insulza said today, as he called for greater collaboration from the hemisphere to strengthen the work of the of the OAS Mission to Support the Peace Process in Colombia (MAPP).
“We are engaged in a positive task and I believe that it can be much more positive if we redouble our efforts at this very crucial moment,” said Insulza, during the first such presentation that a Secretary General has made to the 34 OAS member countries on the process to demobilize illegally armed groups in Colombia. Insulza stressed the need to expand the available human resources to be able to fulfill the Mission’s mandates.
“The MAPP, which today has only 44 employees, should have a permanent establishment of more than 100,” the quarterly report presented by Insulza states. “To achieve such an increase would require an annual budget of more than $10 million.”
The Secretary General informed the OAS Permanent Council about Colombia’s recently passed Justice and Peace Law, and stressed that “we are obligated to see that the law is followed, therefore there is also a need for judicial verification, a verification of justice, to take place.”
The Secretary General also emphasized the need to substantially reinforce the verification of human rights issues related to the demobilization process and said that it is essential for the OAS Mission in Colombia to have a human rights component.
The report presented today indicates that consultations with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) are underway to study the possibility of forming an IACHR working group in that country. This would allow an “active collaboration with the MAPP to ensure that the Organization’s role in Colombia is fully consistent with the obligations of its member states regarding full respect for human rights and international law,” it says.
Colombia’s Ambassador to the OAS, Alvaro Tirado Mejía, said that “more extensive funding will permit the expansion of programs to verify the ceasing of hostilities, disarmament and demobilization, to accompany in a more direct way the reintegration of those demobilized and to support the communities where this process has occurred.”
In the meeting, chaired by Ambassador Izben Williams of Saint Kitts and Nevis, the representatives of several countries expressed their support for the work carried out by the OAS in Colombia.