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.
OAS and UN Sign Cooperation Agreement on Women’s Affairs
June 29, 2010
The Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) today signed a cooperation agreement that seeks to establish working mechanisms relating to issues on women.
The agreement, signed by the Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza, and by the Director of UNIFEM, Inés Alberdi, will focus its goals on areas like Economic Politics and the empowerment of women; the strengthening of democratic political systems and electoral processes through the promotion of free and fair elections throughout the American continent; the fight against poverty and social exclusion, with a special emphasis on the social inclusion of women; the strengthening of the capacity of the most vulnerable groups (indigenous, Afro-descendants, and others); the elimination of all forms of violence against women; sustainable development; cultural diversity; and actions designed to guarantee the fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goals.
During the ceremony, which took place in the main building of the hemispheric organization in Washington, DC, the Secretary General asserted that with the signing of the Agreement, “we establish an important alliance between those institutions that share common goals and act in very diverse areas.” Insulza added that “we should transform this into an active, agile, modern, and efficient alliance that allows us to increase the potential for change currently driven by UNIFEM and the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) of the OAS."
“I am certain that the experiences and complementary function between the political dialogue of CIM and the operational capacity of UNIFEM will strengthen the bonds between politics, its implementation, and its real impact in the lives of women. Through this, the Inter-American Year of Women will see the beginning of the end of inequality and marginalization in our region,” asserted the topmost representative of the hemispheric organization.
In turn, UNIFEM’s representative thanked the Secretary General of the OAS for entering into the agreement and asserted that “now we will be able to collaborate more intensely and fundamentally with women and the representatives of their interests in the Latin American region.”
Also present at the ceremony were the Assistant Secretary General of the OAS, Albert Ramdin; the President of the Permanent Council and Representative of the United States, Carmen Lomellin; the Permanent Representatives of Panama, Ambassador Guillermo Alberto Cochez Farrugia, and of the Bahamas, Cornelius A. Smith; the President of the Inter-American Commission of Women, Wanda Jones; and the Secretary of CIM, Carmen Moreno.