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.
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, on the International Day of Democracy, invited the governments and peoples of the hemisphere to renew the challenge to strengthen, promote and fight for the effectiveness and development of democracy. “Our countries have learned with great pain the value of respect for freedom, tolerance and pluralism, and never in history has a democratic period been so solid and permanent, as in the past two decades," said Insulza. “It's always time to build, rebuild or improve up democracy, and those of us who believe in democracy know that its care is everyone's job every single day,” he added.
The Secretary General said that “while there is still a long way to go in terms of the protection and defense of human rights and the strengthening of the rule of law in the region, the position and action of the states has changed dramatically compared to past decades.” He recalled, in this regard, the fundamental contribution of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, an instrument that has been in force for 11 years and has become a cornerstone of the Inter-American system, in relation to the defense and collective protection of democracy in the hemisphere.
Insulza reiterated that the OAS “will always be open, committed and interested in sharing its advances in promoting democracy with other regional and intergovernmental organizations,” and called on Member States of the hemispheric organization to “share their pathways and experiences in the defense of democracy, to continue building and strengthening the democratic system.”
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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