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.
Permanent Representative of Guatemala Assumes Chairmanship of Permanent Council
July 1, 2011
The Permanent Representative of Guatemala, Ambassador Jorge Skinner-Klee, today assumed the Chairmanship of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) in a ceremony held at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC.
At the event, the Guatemalan Representative stressed that the Organization is home to many important issues “to be debated and fully understood,” among which he mentioned “how we should approach the Inter-American Democratic Charter, how to support and deepen the discussion on the human rights system in the hemisphere, how to undertake the methodological tasks of this Organization.” Ambassador Skinner-Klee promised to “move all of this forward, together with the Declaration of San Salvador and the Regional Security Strategy issued in Guatemala.”
He then reflected that security is an issue “urging us all as communities and as nations,” and he called on Member States to “work together to join us and help us to ensure a better future for all Americans.” The diplomat received from the outgoing Chairwoman and Permanent Representative of Grenada, Ambassador Gillian Bristol, the gavel representing the authority of the Permanent Council, the entity that brings together all 34 active Member States of the regional organization.
In her farewell remarks, Ambassador Bristol reiterated the “important challenges” that she addressed in her role as Chairwoman, including the return of Honduras to the OAS and the Organization’s 41st General Assembly in El Salvador. In addition, she promised to offer all of her support to the new Chairman.
The Vice Chairmanship was assumed by the Permanent Representative of Colombia, Luis Alfonso Hoyos, who replaced the Ambassador of Costa Rica, José Enrique Castillo. The ceremony was attended by the Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza, and the Permanent Representatives of the Bahamas, Bolivia, Canada, Dominica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Suriname, and Venezuela.
The Statute of the Permanent Council establishes that the Chairmanship is to be held successively by each of the Permanent Representatives, in alphabetical order as determined by each country’s name in Spanish, and the Vice Chairmanship in the same manner, following reverse alphabetical order. Both positions have a term of three months.
The CV of Ambassador Skinner-Klee is available here.
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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