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.
Statement of the OAS Secretary General on the Chilean Miners Rescue
October 13, 2010
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States, José Miguel Insulza, has issued the following statement:
“Over the last two days I have followed, along with all my fellow citizens and many millions of people around the world, the rescue operation of the 33 miners buried for more than two months in the San José Mine. I have been moved by the sight of how each of their rescues has been received with so much joy by so many people who, without knowing them, have learned to admire them for their courage, optimism and integrity, and have recognized Chile, in its leaders, its professionals and workers, in the patriotic and unitary sense in which they have all faced this difficult event. The nation has been lifted by this challenge and that must fill us with happiness and unite us more.
I congratulate the miners and their families, who have moved us through their courage, their sense of camaraderie and unity, and I salute all Chileans, who have kept alive the hope throughout this long and tense vigil of more than two months.
I salute the Government for the dedication and effectiveness with which it has conducted this operation, without holding back resources to save the lives of our fellow citizens, and I congratulate the technicians who have impressed us with their abilities, effectiveness and dedication.
I thank the foreign governments and businesses that have so generously contributed to this great task.