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.
SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION FOR AFRICA AND THE AMERICAS APPROVED A JOINT DECLARATION
March 4, 2005
Washington, D.C., March 4, 2005. The recently appointed Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression for the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR), Commissioner Andrew Chigovera, made an official visit to the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States (OAS), Mr. Eduardo Bertoni, during the week of February 28 through March 4, 2005. The visit was an opportunity for the two defenders of freedom of expression to discuss common problems facing freedom of expression in both Africa and the Americas, consider ways in which the two mandates can cooperate to address some of these problems, and exchange information about strategies to carry out their individual mandates.
At the conclusion of the visit, the two Rapporteurs approved a joint declaration addressing some of the issues they discussed during their meetings. Specifically, the Declaration reaffirms the importance of freedom of expression in a democracy and expresses concern about the many threats to freedom of expression in both regions. The Declaration notes that reprisals against journalists and others who report critically on matters of public interest are common in both regions. In some cases, such reprisals take the form of threats or physical aggression, including murder, against journalists, media workers and human rights defenders. In other cases, reprisals are carried out through the legal system, by applying laws such as criminal defamation laws with the intent to suppress criticism. The Declaration also highlights the importance of plurality in sources of information as an essential component of freedom of expression and observes that "[s]tate control of media, as well as laws and practices that permit monopolies in ownership of media companies, limit plurality and prevent the public from hearing certain points of view."
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