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.
Spanish International Development Officials Reiterate Commitment to the OAS
November 21, 2012
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today met with the Secretary General of International Cooperation for Development of Spain, Gonzalo Robles, and the Director of the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development, Juan López-Dóriga with whom he discussed the future of collaboration between the two institutions and issues of security and development in the region.
In the framework of the meeting, held at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC, Secretary General Robles expressed Spain’s interest in continuing cooperation projects with the OAS currently underway, and reiterated the continued support of his country for Latin America and for the work of the hemispheric institution. Robles said that the relationship with the organization allows Spain to "expand political cooperation with its Member Countries."
For his part, Secretary General Insulza highlighted the "significant relationship" that has been established with Spain, and emphasized specifically its "support and involvement" for the work the OAS has done over the last eight years with the Mission to Support the Peace Process in Colombia (MAPP/OAS).
Other issues that occupied the agenda of the meeting were: the content and conclusions of the 22nd Ibero-American Summit, held on November 16 and 17 in Cadiz, Spain, and attended by Secretary General Insulza as a special guest; the recent approval of the budget of the organization; and the reworking of the OAS to focus on key issues in the region. Other issues included the support provided by the hemispheric institution in strengthening security in several Central American countries.
In 1972, Spain was the first country outside the region to be accredited as a Permanent Observer to the OAS, and since then has worked with the organization on issues relating to the strengthening of democracy, security and human rights, among others.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.