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.
The United States government today formally deposited its instruments that ratified the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism and reaffirmed its highest priority on hemispheric initiatives to fight terrorism. The United States is now the 14th member state to ratify the Organization of American States (OAS) treaty, adopted on June 3, 2002, at the OAS General Assembly in Barbados.
“In the Americas, the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism is central to this important collaborative effort,” declared Ambassador John F. Maisto, the U.S. Permanent Representative, after delivering the ratification instruments to OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza. He argued that among the highest priorities for the U.S. in the fight against terrorism is the long-term institutional stability of the CICTE. “Together, we can defeat terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, committed by whomever, wherever and for whatever reason.”
Ambassador Maisto observed that “the democratic nations of this hemisphere are engaged in a global campaign to combat terrorism” and he pointed to CICTE as “an outstanding—perhaps the best—example of a region pulling together to defend itself, to defend its democratic way of life, and to defend its freedom to live and to prosper peacefully—all shared values among OAS member states.” He further applauded “those member states that have pledged resources and manpower to sustain CICTE through its formative period, helping it to emerge as a premier instrument for improving our states’ capabilities to address the terrorist threat.”
The Secretary General meanwhile hailed this latest deposit of ratification instruments, stating that “it is going to be a big boost for the Convention” against terrorism. He urged those member states that have not yet done so to ratify as soon as possible.
Mr. Insulza also urged member states to continue vigorously striving “to keep terrorism out of our hemisphere, and to help each other.” He underlined the common hemispheric interest against the terrorism scourge, saying that shared interest should spur cooperation to root out terrorism and make sure it never happens again in this hemisphere.
In addition to the Chairman of the OAS Permanent Council, St. Kitts and Nevis Ambassador Izben Williams, several senior officials of the US State Department as well as from the OAS Secretariat attended the ceremony to witness the deposit of the anti-terrorism treaty ratification instruments.
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