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 Expresses Solidarity with Victims of Rains and Accepts Albania as Permanent Observer
October 19, 2011
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today expressed solidarity with the countries in the region being affected by torrential rains. The Chair of the Permanent Council and Representative of Guyana, Bayney R. Karran, expressed the body’s solidarity “for the injuries and loss of life” recently registered in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica and Colombia, and asked their representatives to transmit the message to their people and Governments.
At the meeting, Ambassadors of affected countries reported to the Council on the latest information regarding damages, which currently exceed one hundred deaths, 700,000 citizens affected and tens of thousand displaced.
During the same session, the Permanent Council adopted by acclamation the Republic of Albania as the 68th Permanent Observer of the OAS. Albania’s Ambassador to the United States, Gilbert Galanxhi, said his country sees the Organization of American States “as a powerful multilateral forum, as an important segment of the global chain of multilateral diplomacy, greatly affecting not only the region it geographically covers, but also global development and inter-relations among states and regions."
The status of OAS Permanent Observer was established during the General Assembly held in San José, Costa Rica, in 1971. Permanent Observers participate in all of the Organization’s activities and contribute to its programs.
The Permanent Council also recognized the work being conducted by the Columbus Memorial Library as the depositary of the history and culture of Member States. It includes a detailed registry of photographs, commemorative stamps, archives and files documenting the history of the OAS. It also includes approximately a million books, 250,000 periodic publications, and 500,000 documents published by the OAS and its predecessors.
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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