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.
Secretary General of the OAS Dialogues with Students at George Washington University
November 8, 2013
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, spoke this Thursday with students at George Washington University about “the OAS in the Americas: Progress and Challenges.”
In his presentation, Secretary General Insulza highlighted the political progress made in the region, which in his judgment is reflected in more competitive and open elections, and greater stability among the governments of the region in the last ten years. “I think that we have been building democracy in the Americas,” said Secretary General Insulza, while at the same time noting that the political progress coincided with a great period of economic growth. “Between 2002 and 2012, we had more growth in Latin America than in the two previous decades put together,” he said.
But the OAS leader warned that “democracy is a process, and processes go backward and forward,” and added that despite the progress made building democracy in the region, “anything that can be constructed can also be de-constructed, and certainly there are some factors of de-construction of democracy that are present among us, and that show that this is a complex path.”
Among the main challenges facing the Americas, Secretary General Insulza cited governance, warning that, while the people of the Americas have a much more positive attitude toward democracy, surveys also show that many are not satisfied with the performance of their political systems, “because they don’t deliver what they should.”
The Secretary General mentioned other “structural problems” such as the current level of inequality in the region, which in his view “is not compatible with democracy;” he also cited transnational crime; a lack of consensus; and “a tendency to use democratic rules to gain more power and stay in power.”
Following the presentation, there was a question and answer session with the students in attendance.
Stephen Kaplan, Professor of Latin American and Hemispheric Studies, delivered the introduction to the event, which was moderated by Bob Maguire, Director of the Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program at George Washington University.
Before his presentation, the Secretary General met with a group of students and professors to discuss the current context in the Hemisphere.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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