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 Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today regretted the harshness that immigration law HB 56, passed in the State of Alabama, represents to the lives of thousands of immigrants arriving in the United States from Latin American countries “to exchange their hard labor for a better quality of life and hopes that, in many cases, their own countries cannot offer them." Laws such as HB 56, he emphasized, “seek to artificially supress natural processes and exacerbate feelings of discrimination and xenophobia towards immigrants."
"It is not up to me to comment on decisions made by national courts, but I have always said that experience shows that until now the search for solutions to the problem of irregular immigration through restrictive and punitive measures has not been effective," Secretary General Insulza said. He added that "what is most surprising is that HB 56 denies access to education not only to Hispanic children but to American children whose parents have an irregular migration status."
In this respect, the Secretary General said that "education is a human right as much as a vital medium for promoting peace and respect for human rights and fundamental liberties," and asserted that "to contribute to build a more peaceful world, education must be universal and accessible equally to all. Gabriela Mistral has said it: the future of children is always today. Tomorrow is too late."
According to a Pew Hispanic Center report, childhood poverty among Hispanics in the United States breaks records. More Latino children live in poverty -6.1 million in 2010- than children in any other racial or ethnic group.
The OAS Secretary General applauded the steps taken by the federal government of the United States to take this ruling to the Supreme Court.
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