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.
COMPROMISE URGED IN WORK TOWARDS HEMISPHERIC DECLARATION ON RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
November 26, 2007
As work continues within the Organization of American States (OAS) on a Draft American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the OAS Assistant Secretary General, Albert R. Ramdin, has urged those involved to place emphasis on reaching compromise on the major concerns of the hemisphere’s indigenous peoples and governments.
The OAS’ work has been moving forward, even as the United Nations this year adopted the International Declaration on Indigenous Peoples Rights, an initiative Ambassador Ramdin described as one that “will enrich national legislations and therefore improve policy mechanisms.”
The Assistant Secretary General made the remarks today at the opening of a two-day “Reflection Session” of the OAS Working Group to Prepare the Draft American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The session is being held at OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Ambassador Ramdin highlighted major issues, noting that while strides have been made on improving socio-economic conditions in the last decade on, much remains to be done to redress problems affecting the hemisphere’s Indigenous populations that number some 28 million. Ramdin spoke about a wide education gap of “close to three years of schooling” between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations; child labor rates that “may be limiting” Indigenous peoples’ access to education”; and persistent lack of access to basic health services for Indigenous peoples.
“These facts, among others, have been the reasons the United Nations and the OAS have assumed a decisive role in building a coherent framework of rights and policies in favor of indigenous peoples,” Assistant Secretary General Ramdin explained, describing the reflection session as a step forward in that sense. He also urged the negotiators to identify instruments that can facilitate and accelerate the negotiation process; and formulate specific recommendations to submit to the OAS Permanent Council for consideration.
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