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.
HEMISPHERIC MEETING OF OFFICIALS OF COOPERATION TO TAKE PLACE THIS OCTOBER IN COLOMBIA
September 2, 2009
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, and the Permanent Representative of Colombia before the OAS, Ambassador Luis Alfonso Hoyos Aristizábal, today signed the Agreement for the Specialized Meeting of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) of High-Level Officials of Cooperation, which is to take place in Bogota, Colombia, on October 26 and 27, 2009.
In this Specialized Meeting of the CIDI, a dialogue begun by High-Level Officials of Cooperation in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, in October 2008, will continue. Among others, the goals of this Specialized Meeting of the CIDI are to seek to demonstrate the potential of cooperation in the framework of the OAS, institutionalize a space of high-level dialogue among officials of cooperation of the Member States, and seek the commitment of officials of cooperation and other international actors to make use of the OAS as an effective means to maximize their interests.
“In truth the subject of international cooperation is one that is very close to me,” Secretary Insulza said during a ceremony of the signing of the agreement, which was carried out in the OAS headquarters, “because until a few months before the end of democracy in Chile I was in charge of international cooperation for the government of Chile and, upon my return to the government 17 years later, I again was in charge of international cooperation.
“I sincerely believe that among countries with medium levels of development, as are many of ours, it is a basic tool of international relations,” he said, referring to international cooperation and the help that developed countries can offer others in the hemisphere. “I am convinced of the value of international cooperation in itself and also I am convinced of the value of international cooperation as a tool of international relations, a practice of doing things together and not just meeting every once in a while to talk about them.”
For his part, Ambassador Hoyos Aristizábal emphasized that the Government of Colombia hopes the Specialized Meeting will be “the beginning of inter-ministerial high-level meetings on cooperation and truly that we turn this into real action to strengthen cooperation in the heart of the OAS.”