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.
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today adopted, in a regular meeting, the second and final grouping of progress indicators for the presentation of periodic reports on the rights contained in the Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights "the Protocol of San Salvador," which completes the definition of the operation of the agreement’s implementation mechanism.
In presenting the document, the Chair of the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs and Permanent Representative of Panama to the OAS, Arturo Vallarino, said, "This report is important because it not only refers to the obligation of states to recognize the rights and create standards, but also provides a mechanism that requires the effective implementation and enforcement of the rights enshrined in the Protocol of San Salvador."
In compliance with the mandate given by the OAS General Assembly in June 2013, the Council today adopted the indicators corresponding to the rights to nutrition, culture, environment, work and unionization. This is added to the indicators already approved within the framework of the 2012 General Assembly, dealing with the rights to education, health and social security.
The indicators are considered guidelines and criteria for the States Parties to the Protocol, which must adapt them to the sources of information available to comply with the Protocol of San Salvador. According to the regulations issued by the General Assembly, the States Parties committed themselves to present the first national progress reports before June 2014.
The Protocol of San Salvador is the first legal instrument that specifically addresses economic, social and cultural rights in the Americas. The document entered into force in November 1999 and so far includes 16 OAS member states: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname and Uruguay.
The step taken today by the Permanent Council is a confirmation of the commitment and willingness of the States Party to make operational the first instrument of economic, social and cultural rights in the Inter-American system, creating a mechanism with the intention of enriching states public policies and reaffirming guarantees to the rights in question.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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