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 Permanent Council Working Group on Human Rights Seeks to Engage Civil Society
August 12, 2011
The Special Working Group created by the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) to “Reflect on the Workings of the IACHR with a view to Strengthening the Inter-American Human Rights System,” agreed at its meeting of August 11 to conduct a process of broad consultation, convening civil society organizations and the different social stakeholders in the Hemisphere to present their contributions on the matter.
In this first stage of the process, the Working Group invites all those who so wish to present written documents not exceeding 2,000 words with their recommendations on the reforms that should be undertaken in the operation of the IACHR to strengthen the Inter-American Human Rights System.
Said recommendations should be sent by email to [email protected] at the OAS Department of International Affairs or faxed to fax +1 202 458-6319.
The Working Group was created by the Permanent Council on June 29, 2011, with the goal of further developing the process of reflection on the operation of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in the framework of the American Convention of Human Rights and its Regulations, achieve the strengthening of the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS) and present its recommendations during the first regular session held by the Council in the month of December of 2011.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.