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.
Racial Discrimination against Afro Descendants Discussed At OAS
June 28, 2013
Over 200 million people of Afro descent living in the Americas still face discrimination and inequality in spite of public commitment to equality. The issue was discussed at the Organization of American States in Washington, DC this week as the Inter American Human Rights Commission and the Rapporteurship on the Rights of People of African Descent and Against Racial Discrimination, launched a series on Transforming the Invisible into the Visible.
Addressing stakeholders, Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin, a Caribbean national, described discrimination as being “among the most repulsive forms of human behavior, slicing away at human dignity and hurting the very soul.” According to Ramdin, while many countries recognize the problem, “discrimination in all forms is sometimes built into an environment and almost becomes almost structural.”
Pointing to the recent adoption of the Inter American Convention Against Racial Discrimination at the OAS General Assembly in Antigua, Guatemala, the high ranking OAS official pointed to the momentum building on the issue and called on leaders and citizens to “go beyond agreeing to the precepts of conventions, and translate them into solid actions by implementing laws and policies which promote equality, opportunity and a level playing field.”
Recounting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights- Ramdin reiterated the OAS’ commitment to the protection and protection of equality and justice.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org
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