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.
The OAS and the Spanish Community of the Basque Country to Cooperate on Issues of Competitiveness and Good Governance
October 5, 2012
The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Spanish Autonomous Community of the Basque Country today signed a declaration of intent by which the two institutions will cooperate on issues related to competitiveness, institutional strengthening, transparency and e-government.
At the signing ceremony, held at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC, the Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza, said that the areas of the agreement that have been established for the declaration of intentions "are consistent with the themes that we have in common," and highlighted the positive changes that the Basque Country has recently made. "We are very pleased to have this relationship, which grew out of the conversations we held with Lehendakari Patxi López, President of the Basque Government, during his visit to here last October," he said.
The head of the hemispheric organization highlighted the improvements to its competitiveness that Latin America could achieve with agreements like the one signed today, because according to the latest report from the World Economic Forum, "the region still has a lot of work to do in this area, and we hope to be able to learn from a modern and advanced society like the one you have built."
For his part, the Secretary General of External Affairs of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Guillermo Echenique, alluded to the changes that have marked the recent history of the Basque country and noted that his region "is a country with a rich modern fabric, an innovative industry, and with its own ancestral millenarian culture." The Basque people, he continued, "have carried out great economic and entrepreneurial initiatives throughout history." He also mentioned that a delegation from the Basque Country will participate at the Americas Competitiveness Forum to be held this month in Cali, Colombia.
Finally, Ambassador Jorge Hevia, Permanent Observer of Spain to the OAS, welcomed the initiative of both sides, which he set forward as an example of his country's support for the organization. "This event is a wonderful image of what our commitment to the OAS is and our willingness to facilitate relations with an autonomous community in Spain as dynamic as the Basque country," he said.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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