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.
Ambassador Álvarez of Venezuela Presents Credentials and Assumes Chairmanship of OAS Permanent Council
October 30, 2015
The new Permanent Representative of Venezuela, Bernardo Álvarez, today presented his credentials to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, and assumed the Chairmanship of the Permanent Council of the hemispheric institution.
Ambassador Álvarez underscored the importance of the OAS as the forum that brings together all the countries of the region and recalled that his country’s “diplomacy” is one “of peace,” as evidenced by Caracas’ role in the peace negotiations in Colombia.
Ambassador Álvarez further indicated that his country is committed to "solidarity diplomacy" and "partnership,” and during his time as head of the Mission of Venezuela to the OAS, he will seek to “give emphasis to the Social Charter the Americas,” adopted at the OAS General Assembly of Cochabamba, Bolivia, in 2013, and which Venezuela significantly promoted.
For his part, OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro described Venezuela as a vibrant member of the Permanent Council and other bodies of the Organization, and as a key element in reassessing the role of the OAS in the region.
Secretary General Almagro said the exchange with Venezuela at the Permanent Council is “absolutely enlightening; it is not neutral; it comes with many components, and it comes with great force; and when the work poses new challenges, it is important because it helps organizations reassess themselves, and it helps reassess the work of the General Secretariat and mine as Secretary General.”
Bernardo Álvarez was Ambassador of Venezuela to the United States and Spain. He is also the Secretary General of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas (ALBA).
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