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.
Government of Colombia and OAS Conduct Cyber Attack Simulations
September 20, 2012
The Ministry of Defense of Colombia, with the support of the Organization of American States (OAS), is conducting an exercise in cyber security crisis management at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, with the objective of strengthening the capabilities of Colombia in preventing, detecting and mitigating the effects of a large scale cyber attack on the country.
Neil Klopfenstein, Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism of the OAS, emphasized that “this activity has been made possible thanks to the support of the Colombian National Computer Security Incident Response Team (ColCERT),” referring to the Colombian organization charged with carrying out the exercise.
For his part, the Minister of Information and Communications Technologies of Colombia, Diego Molano Vega, thanked “the support that the Secretariat for Multidimensional Security of the OAS, through the CICTE, has given to Colombia on the cyber security,” and highlighted once again the commitment of the national government on the issue, which is reflected in the creation of the Comisión Nacional Digital and the Comisión de Información Estatal, as well as CIO NACION.
The exercise is the first of its type, and afterwards similar exercises will be carried out in Argentina, Mexico and other countries of the region, for which a new laboratory will be used, which was acquired by CICTE and has been developed with the support of the Department of Information Technology Services (DOITS) of the OAS and experts from the Member States, including officials from ColCERT. The equipment, which was donated by the U.S. State Department, allows the participants in the exercises to work in a virtual environment in which multiple cyber incidents are recreated, which require proper coordination between different institutions in order to be resolved.
Representatives of financial, energy, and telecommunications sectors are participating in the activity, among them relevant actors in the cyber security, with the objective of creating an environment that reflects the realities and the needs of Colombia.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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