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.
FOR COLUMBUS MEMORIAL LIBRARY, DONATIONS FROM CHILE, COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, GUATEMALA, PANAMA, PERU, SPAIN AND URUGUAY
October 11, 2007
The Columbus Memorial Library, located at the Organization of American States’ (OAS) headquarters, is the beneficiary of a significant gift package of books donated by the governments of Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Spain and Uruguay.
Representatives of the donor countries presented the respective volumes to the Library’s Director, Beverly D. Wharton-Lake, during a ceremony, with OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin and Chairman of the Group of Friends of the Library Ambassador Aristides Royo of Panama also on hand.
Among the gifts:
- Chile donated two books containing the minutes of the 1937 Peace Conference and the 1923 Fifth American Conference;
- Colombia presented four books, including a special edition of Colombian Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez’ novel One Hundred Years of Solitude;
- Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry donated 40 books of contemporary Ecuadorian literature;
- Guatemala donated two books on the history of Central America and international relations;
- Panama gave one volume on the country’s nature preservation;
- Peru’s gift package contained books from the Congress, the National Library, the Diplomatic Academy and the University of Lima, as well as a portrait and a painting;
- Spain donated 190 books and facsimiles of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; and
- Uruguay provided three books covering legal issues.
In thanking the countries, Ambassador Royo noted that their generous gifts would provide a major boost to the Columbus Library and to those who drink from the wisdom contained in the books and documents contributed, especially the hundreds of historians and researchers that use this source of information. “This gesture helps encourage other countries to do likewise, and helps us as we try to find more resources for our Library,” the Panamanian diplomat added.
Although its origins date back as far as 1890, the Columbus Memorial Library was formally established on January 24, 1902. On April 7 of that year, Dr. José Ignacio Rodríguez of Cuba was appointed as the first Head of the Library.
The Columbus Memorial Library’s 13 major collections feature the OAS, the United Nations, the League of Nations, Maps and Atlases, Photographs, Leo Stanton Rowe (including personal documents on this Pan American Union Director General (1920-1946), and the General Secretariat, among other collections.
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