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.
ON EVE OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN PANAMA, OAS ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL UNDERSCORES DEFENSE OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
May 31, 2007
PANAMA CITY, Panama—The Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert R. Ramdin, called for a concerted effort to support the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities, calling this a “fundamental moral obligation.”
Speaking in Panama yesterday at the close of the Inter-American Conference on the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities and Their Families, Ramdin said such an effort needs to be made at the global, regional, national and individual level. “The absence of this commitment in our society reflects poorly on the intent and quality of our civilization,” he said.
The conference was held on the eve of the Thirty-Seventh Regular Session of the OAS General Assembly, which will take place June 3-5 in Panama City.
More than 400 people with disabilities attended the two-day conference, sponsored by the Panamanian government and the OAS. Besides Ambassador Ramdin, other participants in the closing ceremony included Panama’s Minister of Social Development, María del Carmen Roquebert León, and the Director of the National Secretariat for the Social Integration of Persons with Disabilities, Manuel Campos. Education Minister Miguel Angel Cañizales also attended.
“I believe that it is incumbent upon governments and society at large to respect basic rights and freedoms of all people,” Ramdin said. “This is an approach that is supported by the OAS as we work toward the elimination of all forms of discrimination against persons with disabilities.”
While the ability to understand and embrace differences is a source of strength, he said, “all too often, minority ethnic groups, indigenous communities and individuals with disabilities, among others, are marginalized to the point of invisibility and denied access to opportunity.”
“It is clear that our countries cannot obtain desired levels of development, stability and democracy when a significant percentage of the population is deprived of real opportunities that will enable them to reach their full potential,” Ramdin added.
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