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.
STATEMENT BY OAS SPECIAL MISSION FOR STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY IN HAITI: TRIAL FOR THE MURDER OF ANTOINE IZMERY
August 19, 2004
The 1993 assassination of Antoine Izmery acquired immense political and juridical dimensions and rapidly became a symbol of the difficulties in the struggle for democracy and equitable development in Haiti.
For that reason alone the trial August 16 of two men previously convicted in absentia of the crime, Louis Jodel Chamblain and Jackson Joanis, was bound to excite strong interest. The high political profile of the case represented a test of the evenhandedness of justice in today’s Haiti, where other prominent political personalities, like former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, remain in jail awaiting trial.
Serious deficiencies were observed in the conduct of the trial and in the judicial procedures applied. The unexplained haste of the prosecution in the preparation of the trial, the failure to present adequate material or documentary evidence and witnesses -- even the prosecution’s own lack of preparedness – hindered the jury’s ability to effectively judge such a complex case.
Instead of demonstrating the turning of a new page as desired by the transitional government, the trial jeopardized the credibility of the judicial process and raised concerns about the integrity of Haitian political life. To alter these perceptions will require credible efforts to combat impunity, the development of proper administration of justice, especially in highly sensitive cases, and a degree of care and principled fairness for all that were manifestly lacking in this case.
The OAS is committed to a democratic future for Haiti and will continue its work to help all Haitians ensure that the judicial system properly fulfills its duties. Failure by Haitian authorities to do so would hinder the advancement of a genuinely democratic process and the consolidation of the rule of law in Haiti.
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