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 Secretary General Expresses His Condolences for the Death of Mexico’s Secretary of the Interior
November 11, 2011
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today expressed his condolences to the Government and people of Mexico, and to the family of the country’s Secretary of the Interior, José Francisco Blake Mora, for the “sudden and tragic death” of the high-level public official.
In a letter addressed to the President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, the Head of the hemispheric Organization, “with deep consternation,” offered his “heartfelt expression of sorrow and solidarity with your person, your Government, and the Mexican people” for the death of Secretary Blake Mora. The deceased minister, he said, will be “remembered for his vocation of tireless public service and his trajectory at the service of his country.”
“I reiterate to you my condolences and request that you extend them in a special way to the family of Secretary Blake Mora,” he concluded.
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