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 Guyana assumes Chair of Permanent Council
October 4, 2011
The Permanent Representative of Guyana, Ambassador Bayney R. Karran, today assumed the Chair of the Permanent Council of the Organization of the American States (OAS), in a ceremony held at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC.
The Guyanese diplomat affirmed that the OAS is ready to make “significant progress in a number of areas” such as strengthening “democracy, social rights and the human rights system. The OAS is the locomotive of hemisphere wide integration and it is up to us, the Member States, to ensure that it is on the right track and in motion towards those objectives,” he stated.
Ambassador Karran also stated that it is “a great honor and pride” for his country to assume the Chair of the Council and highlighted that the General Secretariat “will have my unconditional support.” At the same time, he called for OAS Member States to jointly confront “the challenges ahead”, though he is “confident that we can make good progress.”
The outgoing Chair and Permanent Representative of Guatemala, Ambassador Jorge Skinner-Klee, thanked the support he received during the time of his tenure and expressed his availability to collaborate with the new Chair.
The Vice Chair was assumed by the Permanent Representative of Chile, Ambassador Dario Paya, who replaced the Ambassador of Colombia, Luis Alfonso Hoyos.
The ceremony was attended by the OAS Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza, the OAS Assistant Secretary General, Albert Ramdin, and the Permanent Representatives of Barbados, Belize, Canada, Haiti, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Venezuela.
The Statute of the Permanent Council establishes that the Chair 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 Chair in the same manner, following reverse alphabetical order. Both positions have a term of three months.
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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