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.
Message of the OAS Secretary General on the 50th Anniversary of the “I Have a Dream” Speech
August 28, 2013
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today recalled the 50 years since the historic address by the great civil rights leader in the United States, Martin Luther King, “in which he shared his dream of inclusion and his will to put an end to racial discrimination using nonviolent means.”
The OAS leader recognized the historic weight of the simple phrase – I have a dream – “as a powerful tool in the struggle to confront the violence of racist sectors of the U.S. society half a century ago.” He said “the force of the conviction of Reverend King to struggle using nonviolent means to achieve profound change accomplished more than any weapon could have,” and added that “although there is a long way to go, his message changed history and remains as powerful and urgent today as it was 50 years ago.” “The legacy of Martin Luther King can be felt powerfully in the presence of President Barack Obama in the White House and in many areas of the society and politics of this great country,” said Insulza, “but there is still much to be done, throughout the Americas, to put an end to discrimination and inequality,” he added.
He recalled the important work carried out by the hemispheric Organization in this area, reflected in the adoption of the Inter-American Convention against Racism, Racial Discrimination, and Related Forms of Intolerance and the Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance.
Finally, the OAS Secretary General said that in these days of tragic confrontations in some countries of the Middle East, the world should remember the example of Reverend King.
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