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.
FINALISTS ANNOUNCED FOR 2009 CITIZEN OF THE AMERICAS AWARD
November 9, 2009
The Trust for the Americas, an affiliate of the Organization of American States (OAS), has announced the finalists for the 2009 Corporate Citizen of the Americas Award, which seeks to encourage the private sector’s role in developing solutions to overcome poverty in communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean by recognizing companies that have implemented innovative programs that benefit their communities.
This year’s CCA Award finalists are, in alphabetical order: AES, House of Culture and Citizenship, located in socially vulnerable areas is both urban and rural Brazil; Banco Compartamos, a leading microfinancial institution in Latin America; Diageo’s Learning for Life program, designed to transform the lives of underprivileged people that is active in 19 Latin America and Caribbean countries; Ernst and Young’s Corporate Responsibility Fellows Program, in which fellows help high-impact entrepreneurs in Chile and Uruguay to strengthen their businesses; Freeport McMoRan’s IluMINA tu Vida program, which has given free Internet access to local communities in Chile; Itaú Unibanco’s Writing the Future program, which trains teachers from the Brazilian formal public school system; MetLife Mexico’s Con Lazos Descubro lo Bueno program, which promotes improvement of basic education and values for Mexican youth; Scotiabank México’s Red de Sucursales Incluyentes, which seeks to make its branches accessible to clients and employees with visual and motor disabilities; Telefónica Internacional USA’s Proniño Program, which aims to transform the lives of the most vulnerable children in Latin America through protection of minors and quality education; and Western Union’s Our World, Our Family program, which seeks to provide skills, knowledge and resources to the global migrant population.
The Trust for the Americas and the OAS will announce one winner and two honorable mentions for the award at a reception recognizing the finalists on December 9, 2009, at OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The Trust for the Americas is a nonprofit organization established in 1997 to promote private and public sector participation in projects that reflect the principal goals of the OAS. This year’s Award Selection Committee is comprised of Albert Ramdin, OAS Assistant Secretary General; Susan Segal, President and CEO of the Americas Society-Council of the Americas; Steven Puig, the Vice President for the Private Sector and Non-Sovereign Guaranteed Operations at the Inter-American Development Bank; Basil Khalil, Managing IT Director of FedEx Latin America; and Marcia Teixeira, Community Affairs and Internet Safety Lead for Microsoft Latin America.
For more information, please contact Eleni Fischer, Award Coordinator, at 202-458-3261.