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.
At the OAS, Panama Signs Conventions against Racism and Discrimination
June 5, 2014
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Panama, Francisco Álvarez De Soto, today signed the Inter-American Convention against Racism, Racial Discrimination, and Related Forms of Intolerance and the Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance, in the presence of the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza.
After signing the document in the context of the forty-fourth regular session of the OAS General Assembly in Asunción, Paraguay, Minister Álvarez De Soto said his Government believes that both conventions “represent the present and future of our Americas, a more tolerant, most embracing region.” On behalf of President Ricardo Martinelli, he said “we are proud and gratified to join the countries that have decided to accede to these two conventions.”
For his part, Secretary General Insulza recalled that “these are conventions on tolerance. No one is asked to subscribe to a particular lifestyle; they ask us only to understand that we are all equal.” “Tolerance is a virtue,” added the Secretary General, “precisely in societies that contain differences. They have different races, different ethnic groups, different genders, different options, different lifestyles, and that is why we want to ensure we can live in peace with all members of our societies.”
On June 5, 2013, the General Assembly, in Antigua, Guatemala, adopted the two binding instruments.
The adoption of the two conventions was the culmination of a task undertaken in 2000 by the OAS member states when the General Assembly instructed the Permanent Council to study the need to prepare a draft inter-American convention to prevent, punish, and eradicate racism and all forms of discrimination and intolerance.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.
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