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.
Member Countries Express their Views on the Conflict in the Middle East
July 23, 2014
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today bid farewell to the Permanent Representative of Canada to the OAS, Alan Culham during a regular meeting at its headquarters in Washington DC.
The Chair of the Council and Permanent Representative of Saint Lucia, Sonia Johnny, expressed her appreciation for the Canadian Ambassador and said that “although you will not be physically among us, it will be difficult for your legacy here to fade,” said Ambassador Johnny.
The Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza, said Ambassador Culham “has served with great capacity and dignity in the position of Ambassador of Canada to the OAS, in the tradition of the great ambassadors we have had here from your country.” He thanked the Canadian diplomat for “his enormous sacrifice and the enthusiasm with which he has gone about his work” and wished him “the greatest of successes in the future.”
Before concluding the meeting of the Council several representatives expressed the positions of their governments regarding the current conflict in the Middle East. Secretary General Insulza, as expressed last week, said that “there are two lines here: the first is to demand an immediate cease fire,” and next, he said it is necessary to emphasize that “Gaza has no viability, no possibility of life in current conditions. It is a zone completely blocked off whose inhabitants cannot leave through Israel nor Egypt without great difficulty.” “You cannot have 1.8 million people living in a territory that small without any way of earning a living and think that hostilities will not begin again soon,” said Secretary General Insulza, as he urged the search for a solution to this basic problem.
During the meeting the representatives of Guatemala, United States, Uruguay, Mexico, Antigua and Barbuda (on behalf of CARICOM), Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, Haiti, Paraguay, Canada, Ecuador Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, Dominica, Belize, Dominican Republic, Panama, El Salvador, Uruguay and the Permanent Observer of Italy (on behalf of Spain, France and the European Union) took the floor.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.
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