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.
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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.
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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.
EL SALVADOR RATIFIES TREATY ON SERVING CRIMINAL SENTENCES ABROAD
December 18, 2007
By being able to serve criminal sentences in their country of origin, nationals also have an opportunity to benefit from the country’s social rehabilitation programs, among other factors, Ambassador Abigail Castro de Pérez, El Salvador’s Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), reaffirmed on depositing the instruments of ratification of the Inter-American Convention on Serving Criminal Sentences Abroad.
With those instruments deposited, El Salvador became the 14th Member State to ratify the OAS treaty that was adopted at the General Assembly held in Managua, Nicaragua, in June 1993.
Presenting the instruments of ratification to OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza today, the Salvadorian Ambassador noted that with such an instrument, the serving of criminal sentences after due pSecretary General Insulza thanked El Salvador rocess offers Salvadorians an opportunity to “return to their country and find help under our programs for rehabilitation into the community.” Ambassador Castro de Pérez said it is also useful for citizens so desiring to be able to return to their country to finish sentences in an environment with which they are familiar.
For his part, Secretary General Insulza thanked El Salvador for ratifying the treaty and depositing the instruments, adding that through this treaty, Member States seek to improve the administration of justice as well as a more complete rehabilitation. He said that beyond being an efficient cooperation mechanism, the Inter-American Convention on Serving Criminal Sentences Abroad, as an instrument, “is fully in keeping with security and protection objectives while also improving human rights in our countries.”
According to Secretary General Insulza, the move by El Salvador could also serve to motivate other countries that have not yet done so to ratify the hemispheric treaty.
Following the ceremony, which was held at OAS headquarters, the Salvadorian diplomat updated the Secretary General on a series of bilateral cooperation agreements that her government had signed with neighboring countries, on a variety of subjects.