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.
SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE OAS: POVERTY IN OUR REGION “HAS A WOMAN’S FACE”
October 5, 2009
The Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) of the Organization of American States (OAS) today inaugurated the second regular session of its Executive Committee, in which, among other subjects, will be discussed the situation of women in the current economic crisis and the possibilities for collaboration with other organizations, as well as gains in the elimination of violence against women.
“In an environment in which women already have a hard time keeping their jobs or finding new employment opportunities, the unemployment caused by the crisis will probably affect more women than men in our region,” Insulza said. The proportion of poor women is growing in a region in which poverty “already has a woman’s face,” Insulza said.
“We wish the CIM to be the setting where strategies aimed at bringing attention to the needs of women will be agreed upon, at propelling actions leading to the elimination of obstacles that obstruct the equal economic participation of men and women, and also to develop in a forum to promote the strengthening of democracy and governance through mechanisms that ensure a greater participation of women at all levels in the politics in their countries,” Insulza stated.
The Secretary General also announced today the beginning of a new and closer relationship between the General Secretariat of the OAS and the CIM. “It is because of the CIM’s importance that we have decided to include its Executive Secretariat in the Executive Council of the General Secretariat, so that it may contribute to our most important decisions and above all to remind us constantly of the priority that this Organization must accord to gender affairs.”
For her part, the President of the CIM and Chilean Minister of Women’s Affairs, Laura Albornoz Pollmann, said that with these changes the CIM “enters a new era,” adding that the year 2010, in which the Inter-American Year of Women will be celebrated, “not only will be the year of the CIM, but rather will be the year of the OAS in women’s affairs.”