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 OAS Opens the Application Period for Scholarships for Undergraduate, Graduate and Research Studies in 2016
December 18, 2014
The Organization of American States (OAS) announces the opening of the application period for the OAS Academic Scholarship Program, which offers students the opportunity to pursue undergraduate degrees, graduate degrees or graduate research, leading to a university degree at institutions of higher education throughout the Hemisphere.
The scholarships, which are open to all citizens and permanent residents of OAS member states, offer up to $30,000 per year in total benefits that may cover all or part of tuition and mandatory fees, living costs, study materials, airfare and health insurance, for up to two academic years.
Applicants for this award cycle will be eligible for studies beginning between January 2016 and December 2016. Application deadlines vary by country and are established by a specially designated National Liaison Agency in each member state.
Interested candidates should review the program requirements, eligible fields of study, regulations and deadlines before submitting an application and should contact their respective National Liaison Agency to verify any additional requirements established by that Office.
Since its inception in 1958, the OAS Academic Scholarship Program has awarded more than 21,000 scholarships for master's degrees, doctoral studies and graduate research and has since 1983 offered funding for the last two years of undergraduate studies for students from the English-speaking Caribbean, and Suriname. From 2005 to the present, the annual number of students supported by the OAS has tripled, from 570 to 1855. Through this Program, the OAS supports human resource development in its Member States in areas of regional and national priority, thereby contributing to the integral development of the Americas.
Contact details of the National Liaison Offices are available here.
More information about the OAS scholarship programs is available here.