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 Dedicates Commemorative Plaque to Former Mexican President Benito Juárez
October 19, 2010
A commemorative plaque in honor of former President of Mexico Benito Juárez, known as “Hero of the Americas,” was unveiled today at Organization of American States (OAS) headquarters in Washington, DC, during an event attended by Secretary General José Miguel Insulza; Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin; the Permanent Representative of Mexico to the OAS, Gustavo Albín; and the Chair of the Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of El Salvador to the OAS, Joaquín Maza.
The plaque carries the inscription: “Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace,” a well-known statement by the Mexican leader, who was president of his country on various occasions between the years 1858 and 1872.
Secretary General Insulza recalled that Juárez was the first president of indigenous origin in the region, that he faced difficult circumstances during his mandates, and described him as “a man of peace who had to face war, a man of letters who had to become a political leader to pull his country forward, a person who fused ideals from the cultures that existed at that moment in our continent.”
He also said that “our admiration for Benito Juárez probably should be reflected in this House of the Americas, and that is why we are filled with pride today, with joy, to inaugurate this plaque in the name of someone who has deservedly been called Hero of the Americas.”
For his part, the Permanent Representative of Mexico to the OAS, Gustavo Albín, said it filled him “with honor to unveil in the House of the Americas on behalf of the government of Mexico” this plaque, “in the framework of the celebrations of Mexico’s Bicentennial of Independence and the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution.” Ambassador Albín highlighted Juárez’s achievements, especially in confronting a foreign invasion, with the knowledge to “lead the popular will with a State vision to save the Republic and clench, as he himself said, a second Independence for our nation.”
“A universal hero, Benito Juárez projected republican Mexico towards the future and built the great pillars of our modernity,” Albín said. “His historic legacy persists as a permanent call for the union of our countries in favor of peace, democracy and freedom, in a framework of full inclusion and social justice.”
Facebook
Twitter
Facebook
Twitter