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.
Mexico to Chair OAS Working Group to Reflect on Ways to Strengthen the Inter-American Human Rights System
October 26, 2011
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today elected the Permanent Representative of Mexico, Joel Hernández, to chair the Special Working Group to Reflect on the Workings of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) with a view to Strengthening the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS). The election by acclamation highlighted the experience of the Mexican representative as a jurist and diplomat to guide the works of the Group, led until today by the Permanent Representative of Peru, Hugo de Zela.
Ambassador Hernández expressed his gratefulness for the nomination and explained the main lines of his role as Chair, among them the implementation of the working program already agreed upon and the adoption of the recommendations requested by the General Assembly, as well as to fully incorporate civil society in the process.
The regular session of the Permanent Council also included a presentation of the Forty-Eighth Report of the Leo S. Rowe Pan American Fund Committee by the Permanent Representative of Antigua and Barbuda, Deborah-Mae Lovell. The document referred to activities carried out from January 2009 to December 2010, and emphasized that the Fund has provided close to 2 million dollars in loans "that have helped the professional development of young citizens in the accomplishment of their higher education, to help students of the hemisphere finance a portion of their education and professional advancement."
The Rowe Fund is an educational OAS loan program that helps citizens from OAS Member countries in Latin America and the Caribbean finance their studies or research in accredited universities across the United States by awarding interest-free loans for up to 15,000 dollars.
These loans are granted on the understanding that recipients agree to repay the loan in full and return to their home countries to apply their knowledge and training, as well as continue to promote cultural exchange and development in the region.
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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