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.
Ambassador Odeen Ishmael, Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), today assumed the chair of the Permanent Council and said over the next three months he intends to focus on democracy as well as the situation in Haiti—on the latter issue, “to see what we can do to move the process forward in Haiti.”
Ambassador Ishmael succeeded his counterpart from Guatemala, Ambassador Víctor Hugo Godoy Morales, in the rotating chair. This is Ambassador Ishmael’s second time leading the Organization’s second highest decision-making body. The previous occasion was in 1994.
The Guyanese diplomat explained that with democracy and democratic governance proposed by Chile as the main theme of the upcoming OAS General Assembly there in June, the issue would be an important priority for the Permanent Council. “Democracy is under very severe threat in many countries,” he stressed, adding that in many countries of the Hemisphere, democracy “remains a fresh idea in the minds not only of governments but also of the people because the experience of democracy has not really taken on deep roots.”
Ambassador Ishmael also spoke about the need to “see how we can work together to develop and deepen democracy within our countries and at the same time to protect whatever democracy—or levels of democracy—we have achieved, and therefore the General Assembly would be a very opportune time to highlight this issue and to make it very clear to all the peoples of our Hemisphere that we as representatives of governments, and governments for that matter, are very serious in moving this process of democracy forward.”
He noted as well his intention to follow up on an initiative begun last year, to promote greater collaboration with the African countries, through their representatives in Washington, as there were a number of areas such as democratic development and managing the HIV/AIDS crisis on which African and Hemispheric diplomats and experts could exchange experience.
The outgoing Permanent Council Chair expressed appreciation for the assistance he received during his tenure, and pledged his collaboration with his successor.
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