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.
INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT HOLD HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY WORKSHOP IN ANTIGUA & BARBUDA
April 26, 2006
On Tuesday, April 25 and Wednesday, April 26, 2006, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (“IACHR”) and the Commonwealth Secretariat co-sponsored a workshop in St. John’s, Antigua & Barbuda on the ratification and implementation of international and regional human rights instruments. The Workshop was officially opened by Antigua & Barbuda’s Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, the Honourable Justin L. Simon Q.C.
The workshop, convened at the invitation of the Government of Antigua & Barbuda, provided officials from governments of the Caribbean region with an intensive training on the importance of full participation in the United Nations and Inter-American human rights systems as well as the procedures involved in ratifying and implementing international and regional human rights instruments. Over 20 government officials from more than 10 Caribbean states participated, including representatives from Antigua & Barbuda, Jamaica, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Suriname.
Panelists at the workshop included senior human rights specialists from the Commonwealth Secretariat, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the Executive Secretariat of the IACHR as well as governmental and nongovernmental legal experts from the Caribbean region. Participants in the Opening Ceremony for the event included Antigua & Barbuda Attorney General Justin L. Simon Q.C., Mr. Clare K. Roberts, Member and former President of the IACHR, Mr. Jarvis Matiya, Human Rights Advisor with the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Human Rights Unit, and Ms. Cecily Norris, Director of the National Office of the Organization of American State (“OAS”)
in Antigua & Barbuda. Closing remarks were delivered by Her Excellency Lisa Shoman, Ambassador of Belize to the United States and Permanent Representative of Belize to the OAS.
The IACHR is the principal human rights organ of the 34-member
OAS and is mandated to promote, protect, and defend human rights in the Americas and to serve as a consultative organ to the OAS in these matters. The Commonwealth Secretariat is the main intergovernmental agency of the 53-member Commonwealth and is responsible for facilitating consultation and co-operation among member governments and countries, including the promotion of human rights through its Human Rights Unit.
The IACHR and the Commonwealth Secretariat wish to thank the Government of Antigua & Barbuda for hosting and facilitating this event.