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 AND GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT COMPLETE DEMINING OPERATIONS
December 12, 2005
On December 15 the Organization of American States (OAS) and the government of Guatemala will mark the end of a program to clear antipersonnel landmines and destroy unexploded ordnance that posed a potential danger to the local population. The program located and destroyed 4,127 unexploded artifacts.
Demining operations began in 1998, as a result of a collaborative effort between the Guatemalan government and the OAS, with the participation of the country’s army, volunteer firefighters corps and former members of the National Revolutionary Army of Guatemala (URNG)). During its seven years of operation, the program benefited 1,800 communities and educated half a million people about the lethal effects of these weapons, which were scattered throughout the country.
The national counterpart in Guatemala was the National Congress’ Commission for Peace and Demining, which handled mine-clearance efforts through its Coordinating Executive Unit, in collaboration with the OAS. In contrast to other countries in Central America, Guatemala not only had antipersonnel land mines throughout its territory, but also faced the threat of unexploded ordnance such as mortars, hand grenades, scattered ammunition, plane bombs and homemade mines.
Guatemala will become the fifth county in the hemisphere to declare itself free of landmines and unexploded ordnance, joining Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Suriname. After Guatemala, the next Central American country expected to conclude landmine operations will be Nicaragua, at the end of 2006.
Guatemala signed the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction (Ottawa Convention) in 1997 and ratified it in 1999. During the last global meeting held to discuss this matter, which took place two weeks ago in Croatia, the OAS participated in a meeting with donors assembled by the government of Nicaragua.
The OAS coordinates efforts to clear landmines and unexploded ordnance through its Mine Action program and with the assistance of its technical counterpart, the Inter-American Defense Board (IADB). In addition to operations in the Central American countries, the OAS has ongoing programs in Ecuador and Peru, and recently began demining operations in Colombia.
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