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.
FOREIGN MINISTERS HOLD PRIVATE DIALOGUE TO EXAMINE REGIONAL AGENDA
June 4, 2007
PANAMA CITY, Panama—The President of the 37th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), Panamanian First Vice President and Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis Navarro, along with OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza led a private dialogue among the Ministers of Foreign Affairs attending the regional organization’s annual meeting.
The Heads of Delegation talked about key issues on the hemispheric agenda, meeting behind closed doors to allow for greater communication. During the meeting, the foreign ministers discussed, among other matters, the mechanisms their respective countries have in place to tackle the issue of energy and sustainable development, the central theme of this year’s OAS General Assembly. The meeting took place at the Visitors Center at the Panama Canal’s Miraflores Locks.
Later in the afternoon, the ministers returned to the ATLAPA Convention Center, where they resumed their public debate. The Heads of Delegation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Bolivia, Haiti, Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda, Guatemala, Honduras, Dominica, Jamaica and Barbados took the floor in this second plenary session.
The ministers summed up the energy picture in each country and agreed on the need to promote a new energy paradigm in the region, one that encompasses the principles of rationality, sustainability and respect for the environment, in order to guarantee clean and renewable sources of energy.
The delegations of Guatemala and Honduras underscored, as well, that freedom of expression and of the press is an essential element of the democratic process which must be sustained and respected at all times in accordance with the principles established in the Inter-American Democratic Charter.