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 Workshop on Bilateral Cooperation in Migration Management Concludes
April 13, 2011
The workshop “Learning from Experiences: Bilateral Cooperation in Migration Management,” organized by the OAS Permanent Council Special Committee on Migration Issues, concluded today. It was a forum for sharing experiences, policies and programs of integration and protection of migrants, as well as existing initiatives in various countries to support and identify nationals living abroad.
During the closing ceremony, the OAS Executive Secretary for Integral Development, Mauricio Cortes Costa, presented the principal conclusions of the two-day meeting, and asserted that throughout the course of the workshop they were able to identify “the strengths and opportunities in migration practices” of the OAS Member States that “will be able to contribute to the implementation of an Inter-American Network on Migration."
Ambassador Cortes Costa ascribed great value to the sub-regional integration processes, describing them as “an opportunity for the improvement of regulatory frameworks that provide more effective solutions to common problems regarding migration issues,” and highlighted how important it is for governments “to be able to rely on trustworthy data, and suitable institutional capacities," as well as the support of civil society, in the formulation of internal norms as well as in the existing mechanisms for their implementation.
In his speech, the high-level OAS representative also alluded to the contributions that migrants make to “the development of their countries of origin,” their “learning in the host country,” and the “intercultural richness and productive potential of migrants becoming thus a driving force for development," emphasizing the need to guarantee rights to those “who in general are in very vulnerable situations, particularly boys, girls, and adolescents.” Finally, he thanked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for the “mechanisms developed for the protection of migrants” and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) “for the support provided to countries in the development of policies that contemplate the considerations of International Humanitarian Law."
Participants in the workshop included representatives and experts on migration from the OAS, the International Organization for Migration, The UN Refugee Agency, Ministers from Member States, civil society organizations, OAS permanent observers, and others.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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