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.
National Authorities Meet in El Salvador in the Framework of the OAS to Advance the Rights of People with Disabilities
May 5, 2011
In the framework of the Organization of American States (OAS), national authorities met in San Salvador, El Salvador, on May 4 and 5 to approve the methodology and parameters for measuring progress in the fulfillment of the Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against People with Disabilities.
The First Lady of El Salvador and the country’s Secretary for Social Inclusion, Vanda Pignato, as Chair of the Committee for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against People with Disabilities (CEDDIS), welcomed the delegates of the states party to the Convention. She was in the presence of Ambassador Ronalth Ochaeta, OAS representative in El Salvador; the representative of Peru and First Vice Chair of the CEDDIS, Luis Miguel Del Águila; the representative of Argentina and Second Vice Chair of the CEDDIS, Pablo Rosales; and the Deputy Minister for Development Cooperation of El Salvador, Jaime Miranda.
Upon addressing the session, the authorities agreed to highlight the importance of strengthening this forum through the kind of support that ensures sustainability towards the fulfillment of the objectives set by the state parties, as well as the need to rely on the inter-American system and the United Nations system to make progress on the national goals for the full realization of the rights and inclusion of people with disabilities. In their remarks, they reiterated the call for the perspective of people with disabilities to be considered in all public undertakings, for which it is necessary to work jointly in all national and international agencies.
Some 90 million people in the Americas face disabilities. To confront these challenges, the inter-American system relies on the Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against People with Disabilities, adopted in 1999, in force since 2001, and made up of 18 state parties. The Convention is the first regional or universal instrument charged with providing the conceptual framework on matters of disabilities, and its objective is the elimination and prevention of discrimination against people with disabilities, and their integration into society.
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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