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.
80 YEARS OF COMMISSION’S ADVOCACY ON BEHALF OF HEMISPHERE’S WOMEN HAILED BY OAS
September 24, 2008
Eighty years of advocacy by the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) on behalf of the hemisphere’s women came in for much praise from the Organization of American States (OAS) Permanent Council, which has passed a resolution recognizing the OAS specialized agency’s work promoting women’s civil and political rights since its founding in 1928.
Antigua and Barbuda’s Permanent Mission to the OAS tabled the resolution at Wednesday’s regular Permanent Council session. Ann-Marie Layne, the Antigua and Barbuda Alternate Representative, presented the draft resolution, telling the member country representatives that “through the work of the CIM issues once rarely spoken about—which were invisible and underground, such as violence against women—have been brought strongly to the fore.”
Several delegations joined in saluting the work of the Inter-American Commission of Women, which was founded at the Sixth International Conference of American States, held in Havana, Cuba, in 1928. “That women are now represented here is ample demonstration of how far we have come,” Brazil’s Ambassador Osmar Chohfi told his colleague Member State representatives. “The inter-American system must therefore continue the struggle by furnishing the Commission with the necessary resources.”
Chile’s Ambassador Pedro Oyarce, meanwhile, in his congratulatory remarks stated that the Commission has made significant contributions to women’s rights, as reflected in the agency’s promotion of the relevant cultural change and public policies.
A number of the Member State representatives who addressed the Permanent Council on the topic cited the important role of the landmark 1994 Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women, also known as the Belém do Pará Convention.
The Permanent Representative of Peru to the OAS, Ambassador María Zavala Valladares, told the Permanent Council that with CIM being among the most significant initiatives aimed at consolidating gender equity, “it is vital that trafficking in women be combated and mechanisms for access to justice be strengthened.” Barbados’ Ambassador, Michael King, underscored the important role played by the Inter-American Commission of Women in development for women in Caribbean development. He also reiterated the support of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) bloc for the hemispheric Commission.
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