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.
OAS AND COLOMBIA KICK STARTED THE SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS PROCESS FOR 2012
October 29, 2009
The Organization of American States (OAS) and the government of Colombia on Thursday kick started the process towards the Summit of the Americas 2012 in the meeting of the Joint Summit Working Group (JSWG), held at OAS Headquarters in Washington, DC.
The meeting, hosted by OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza and co-chaired by the Vice Minister of Foreign Relations of Colombia, Clemencia Forero Ucros, was attended by representatives from the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the World Bank, the International Organization for Migrations (IOM), the International Labor Organization(ILO) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). All international organizations in the JSWG expressed their full support to the Colombian hosts of the Summit.
The Secretary General stressed the importance of an early start to preparing the Sixth Summit of the Americas, barely six months after the Fifth Summit took place in Trinidad and Tobago. “It is very important, because I feel we are launching the real work of the Summit,” he said.
Secretary General Insulza highlighted the need for “countries and international organizations to turn the Summit into a process, and not just an event”. The full preparations towards the Summit are essential, because the goal must be “developing the fundamental issues affecting the region and make sure that our Heads of Government and State can take the appropriate decisions,” he added.
Vice Minister Forero said that it is “a great responsibility and a great honor” for Colombia to host the Summit. “We want to host the Summit in a very coherent and transparent manner. We hope that all institutions represented can help us identify topics and put those topics into a conceptual context.”
“The host country has the leadership, but it cannot do it all by itself,” she said. “We are willing to hear your views, and more than that, we are counting on your help, your academic experience, and we hope to have your technical support,” she added.
At the start of the work towards the Summit, Vice Minister Forero also had a meeting with the Steering Committee of the Summit Process, with the attendance of representatives from all the host countries of previous Summits of the Americas.
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