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.
U.S. COMMITS ANOTHER $1 MILLION TO OAS
EFFORTS IN HAITI—COLIN POWELL
June 9, 2003
Colin L. Powell, the United States Secretary of State, announced today that his government is contributing another $1 million to help the Organization of American States (OAS) Special Mission in Haiti.
He said this added support is further sign of the U.S. commitment to efforts to bolster democracy in the French-speaking Caribbean country, explaining that the funds would help improve the security climate “for what we hope will be free and fair elections in Haiti.
“The United States has increased our humanitarian assistance to $70 million in the current fiscal year,” the Secretary of State added.
“The people of Haiti have waited a long time—too long—for their leaders to meet their obligations under OAS Resolutions 806 and 822,” declared Powell, addressing the OAS General Assembly, which ends Tuesday. He noted that, “If by this September the government of Haiti has not created the climate of security essential to the formation of a credible, neutral and independent Provisional Electoral Council, we should re-evaluate the role of the OAS in Haiti.”
He lauded efforts led by OAS Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi and the OAS Special Mission as well as the international community in providing “substantial support for strengthening Haiti’s institutional capacity and civil society.”
Bahamian Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell felt that “engagement with Haiti is preferable to disengagement,” and added that both the government of Haiti and civil society in that country have a responsibility to work to solve the political problems.