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.
José Miguel Insulza, the Organization of American States’ (OAS) Secretary General, today identified as major challenges combating poverty, pursuing sustainable development and strengthening institutions to ensure better governance and democracy in the Americas.
Addressing a forum at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, Insulza said that while the Andean countries have seen economic growth in recent years, confidence in democracy was sometimes low because of political instability and unemployment.
“Politics aren’t just entirely a matter of values or principles. The objective of politics is to deliver beneficial results to people,” the Secretary General stressed, noting that some 224 million of the region’s citizens live in poverty, 96 million of them being indigent. He warned that even if countries were to meet the Millennium Goals, there would still be 100 million in poverty in the year 2015. “And this is unacceptable.”
Insulza observed that effective governance requires stronger institutions, judicial systems, political parties and efforts to combat corruption. He lauded the adoption of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, calling it one of the signal political achievements to benefit the people of the hemisphere in the last decade.
“The Charter is really an example of democracy that specifically identifies those elements that are necessary to be democratic,” he stated. Elaborating, Insulza said democracy does not mean just elections but also has to do with how society operates on a day-to-day basis.
Secretary General Insulza expressed the view that democracy “has to do with freedom of opinion, fair elections, transparency, separation of powers, how the judicial system operates, and with all those things that governments do in order to deliver good governance to citizens and to be able to help them begin to address their problems once and for all.”
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