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 and Permanent Court of Arbitration Sign Agreement to Promote Peaceful Conflict Resolution
November 5, 2010
The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) today signed a cooperation agreement through which the two institutions will strengthen their ties, facilitate the exchange of information and experiences between them, and establish a legal framework to promote international arbitration within their respective mandates.
The agreement was signed by the OAS Secretary for External Relations, Ambassador Alfonso Quiñonez, and the Secretary General of the PCA, Christiaan M.J. Kröner, during a ceremony held at Organization headquarters in Washington, DC. Also present were ambassadors representative of the regional member groups of the OAS.
Ambassador Quiñónez, on behalf of OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, asserted that “the OAS is aware of the excellent work of the PCA regarding relations between countries, and this is one of the many reasons for which it is imperative to establish and stretch these ties of cooperation between the two institutions, to lead to the exchange of information, technical support and comparative studies.”
“We are convinced that the implementation of this agreement will not only be beneficial to the two organizations, but even more importantly to the peoples in our hemisphere,” Quiñonez concluded.
Recalling the founding principles that unite the two organizations, the Secretary of the PCA said the agreement "marks a step forward in the strengthening of international cooperation," and recalled that never before has cooperation been as important as it is today, given the international environment of globalization, exchange and interaction between nations.
“Competent and trustworthy institutions are the cornerstone of an effective and legitimate international conflict resolution system. The OAS and the PCA have recognized from their founding the fundamental importance of arbitration as an essential mechanism for resolving disputes,” the PCA representative said.
According to the information provided by Secretary Kröner, 25 of 35 OAS Member States are parties to PCA conventions, and in the last decade many of them have actively made use of the Court’s instruments. Among others, he cited PCA arbitration in the conflicts between Guyana and Suriname, and between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago.
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