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.
Meeting of Civil Identity Experts Concludes in Guayaquil
November 2, 2012
The Ninth Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Council of Civil Registration, Identity and Vital Statistics (CLARCIEV), organized by the Organization of American States (OAS) and the government of Ecuador, concluded in Guayaquil, after three days of debate on how best to move toward universal identity in the Americas.
The meeting brought together 19 Directors of Civil Registration of Latin America and the Caribbean and international experts to discuss best practices on citizen registration, as part of the efforts by the OAS to support member countries in eradicating under-registration, in order to secure access to a duly recognized identity, bearing in mind that this allows access to other rights.
During the meeting, experts discussed issues relating to transparency, technology, innovation, and under-registration and the interoperability of marital status. Moreover, there were keynote presentations, workshops, analysis of reports by commissions and presentation of results by countries.
The Coordinator of the Program for Universal Civil Identity in the Americas (PUICA) of the OAS, Steven Griner, highlighted the progress made at the regional level in terms of access to identification services. In this context, he said that in the past six years, under-registration of children less than five years of age was reduced from 18 to 10 percent, which is far from figures in other regions like the Middle East, Asia and Africa, which are on the order of 23 to 62 percent.
The OAS official said that the target for 2015 is "zero under-registration," taking into account the challenge that currently each year in the Americas there are an average of 1.3 million births that are not properly included in the civil registers.
For his part, the Chair of CLARCIEV, Alberto Alonso y Coria, invited countries in attendance to strengthen the Council and expressed gratitude for the support of Cooperación Alemana and the OAS.
All activities of PUICA are geared towards fulfilling the five objectives set by the Inter-American Program for Universal Civil Registry and the Right to Identity: universalization and accessibility of civil registry and the right to identity, strengthening of policies, public institutions and national legislation, public participation and awareness on the issue, identification of best practices, and promoting international and regional cooperation.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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