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 ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL UNDERSCORES
INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR HAITI
October 26, 2007
The Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert R. Ramdin, today underscored the international community’s efforts to strengthen democracy, security and development in Haiti, and reiterated the region’s ongoing commitment in supporting the Caribbean nation overcome difficult challenges.
Speaking in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at a meeting of the so called “2x9 mechanism,” which brings together representatives of the nine countries providing troops to the UN/MINUSTAH peacekeeping force in Haiti, Ambassador Ramdin, who also chairs the OAS Haiti Task Force, provided an overview of the progress achieved, but stressed the need for “sound political consultation and dialogue on the ground.”
“Haiti is one of the priority countries for the OAS,” the Assistant Secretary General said, adding “that while there are many levels and forms of coordination of development aid to Haiti, it may be time to harmonize and streamline all these existing dialogue mechanisms.”
Ambassador Ramdin explained that there is an absence of comprehensive information sharing mechanisms, and in this regard he proposed the establishment of an electronic database system that would receive and share information on the activities and initiatives from the international financial institutions, multilateral agencies, bilateral donors and civil society. He indicated that the OAS is prepared to provide assistance to this effort in close collaboration with the Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation.
In addition, the Assistant Secretary General called for a targeted approach to the development social and economic projects that can significantly increase, over time, the productive capacity in agriculture, manufacturing, tourism and trade.
Also speaking at the opening of the meeting were Argentinean Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana, the Haitian Ambassador in Argentina, Raymond Mathieu, and MINUSTAH’s Director for Political Affairs, Gerardo Chevalier.
Ramdin headed a five-member mission which included: Juan Gabriel Valdes, Adviser on Haiti to the OAS Secretary General; Victor Rico, Director of the Department for Special Missions and Conflict Resolution; Arthur Gray, OAS Office Director in Haiti, and Lance Leverenz, Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) Director for New Projects.
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