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 President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, is scheduled to open a two-day ministerial-level meeting on Monday, December 4, which will gather representatives of the 34 countries of the Organization of American States (OAS) to address the major environmental challenges facing the Americas.
The First Inter-American Meeting of Ministers and High Level Authorities on Sustainable Development, taking place in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, will review the state and fate of environmental change, and identify a forward-looking cooperative agenda.
“The success of this meeting will not be measured by its political declaration – the green agenda is already over-crowded with promises made and not kept – but rather by the practical and concrete actions that help improve the lives of families and communities,” noted OAS Secretary GeneralJosé Miguel Insulza, who will address the hemispheric forum on Tuesday.
The region’s ministers are expected to tackle a number of issues, identifying concrete steps forward in improving the sustainable management of water resources; increasing the resilience of communities to natural disasters; and advancing sustainable markets in the agricultural, forestry and tourism sectors.
The meeting marks the first time that governmental ministers, experts in environmental management and representatives from civil society from across the region come together to assess the progress made towards sustainable development and to discuss responses to the new challenges emerging in the hemisphere.
Ten years ago, the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra also hosted the Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development at the level of Heads of State and Government. Next week’s meeting will provide an opportunity to review the policies that emerged from that Summit and to focus on the environmental issues that continue to affect the region.
The OAS Department of Sustainable Development is coordinating the ministerial meeting, which will adopt a number of proposals aimed at improving regional cooperation and implementing practical strategies.
OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin will also speak at the opening ceremony, as well as Bolivia’s Minister of Planning for Development, Luis Hernando Larrazábal Córdova. The sessions will take place at Los Tajibos Hotel in Santa Cruz.