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.
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO RATIFIES OAS ANTI-TERRORISM CONVENTION
December 2, 2005
Trinidad and Tobago, the 16th member of the Organization of American States to ratify the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism, today deposited the instruments of ratification with the OAS. The Caribbean republic had signed the treaty in June 2002 when it was open for signature at the 32nd regular session of the OAS General Assembly in Barbados.
Mackisack Logie, the Alternate Representative of Trinidad and Tobago to the OAS, told Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin that his country’s ratification demonstrates that “we take our responsibility as a global citizen very seriously” and affirms the high regard in which the Caribbean state holds the OAS and its role in hemispheric affairs.
Noting that all states have a duty to take steps to rid the world of the scourge of terrorism, Logie said that Trinidad and Tobago, as the current chair of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE), is “strongly of the view that terrorism in all forms does not belong in our global community." He went on to detail measures by his government in that regard, including passing an anti-terrorism bill this past October; hosting a recent seminar for security practitioners in the region; and pursuing an initiative for an Inter-American Tourism and Recreational Facility Security Program throughout OAS members states.
For his part, Assistant Secretary General Ramdin underscored the importance of ratifying OAS instruments and hailed this latest move by Trinidad and Tobago as well as the specific initiatives cited by Logie. Ramdin added that this anti-terrorism treaty deals with one of the key issues of concern to the hemisphere. “It is part of the new paradigm of the OAS, in the context of multidimensional security, to pay attention to the critical issues. Terrorism is one of them,” Ramdin stressed.
He explained that terrorism is a key concern for the hemisphere because nobody is immune to its effects, and he also urged those member states that have not yet ratified the OAS treaty to do so as soon as possible.
In addition to OAS Permanent Council Chairman Ambassador Izben Williams of St. Kitts and Nevis, those on hand for the brief ceremony included the Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister’s national security adviser, Overand Padmore, representing National Security Minister Martin Joseph, the CICTE chair; and Steven Monblatt, Executive Secretary of CICTE.
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