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 MISSION TO OBSERVE CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM IN SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
November 20, 2009
The Secretary General of the Organization of the American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, and the Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the Hemispheric Organization, Ambassador La Celia A. Prince, signed Friday an agreement to establish the basic terms of the OAS Mission in charge of observing the National Referendum to be carried out by this nation on November 25th.
During the ceremony held at the OAS Headquarters in Washington DC, which was also attended by the President of the Permanent Council and Ambassador of Colombia to the OAS, Luis Alfonso Hoyos, Mr. Insulza highlighted the referendum as “a matter of great interest for the region, as it is the first constitutional referendum in the Eastern Caribbean.”
In regard to the OAS work in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Secretary General said the Organization is involved with technical assistance. “The OAS, through the Technical Cooperation Fund (FEMCIDI) finances part of the work of the Constitutional Review Commission, which in 2002 and 2003 began working on a draft. We are very happy to be instrumental to that.”
Ambassador Prince said that her Government is “very proud because Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is showing its maturity in seeking to bring to the people their own constitution. We do believe that it is time that we have a document which we can claim to be our own.”
“Because of the importance of this document, we are very grateful to the OAS for its participation with us in this important matter. The OAS has been participating and giving guidance as to how we can meet this process, one that is very good, transparent, and one that can be replicated,” she added.
The Referendum will ask citizens to approve or disapprove a new draft constitution, which will replace the one in force since the country’s independence in 1979. If passed by two thirds of the population, the proposed constitution would create a Republic, remove Queen Elizabeth II as the Head of State, create the figure of a President nominated by the two political parties and create a Court of Appeals.
The consultation is the first of its kind to be held by a member of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).
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