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.
The Mission to Support the Peace Process in Colombia (MAPP/OAS):
September 27, 2016
The MAPP/OAS was created in 2004, at the request of the national government, to carry out monitoring and accompaniment tasks related to the peace policy in Colombia.
The mandate of the MAPP/OAS emanates from an agreement between the Government of Colombia and the OAS General Secretariat. This mandate has been ratified through five additional protocols that have renewed and broadened the functions of the Mission.
In 2014, the period of operation of the Mission was extended for three years (2015 – January 2018). This September 27 in Cartagena, President Juan Manuel Santos extended it to December 2018.
The Mission centers its work on the constant monitoring of the conditions of security; peacebuilding; and transitional justice. Since 2015, it has monitored the current and potential social conflicts that could constitute a challenge to the peace.
The Mission has focused on its work on the ground. From the first day, it has deployed to the most remote territories, those most affected by the armed conflict. There, the Mission listens to communities and victims, trains them to promote their participation and supports their processes of resiliency. Moreover, it monitors and accompanies institutional initiatives at the local, departmental and national levels.
The Mission is independent, guided by respect for territorial dynamics and its fluid interaction with key actors in the peace process. Moreover, it´s objective is to generate trust and build bridges between communities, institutions, and the institutional community, thus contributing to building an atmosphere conducive to the building of a stable and durable peace.
To date, the OAS General Secretariat has presented 21 reports with findings and recommendations to the Colombian state on the implementation of the peace policies. 80 percent of the recommendations of the MAPP/OAS in the field of transitional justice, for example, were translated into laws, decrees, and other legal instruments. The reports are available here.
The work of the MAPP/OAS is possible thanks to the economic and political support of its donor countries: Germany, Canada, Spain, the United States, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Switzerland, and the European Union.
Between 2004 and 2006, the MAPP/OAS participated in the verification of the process of the ceasefire, the laying down of arms and the demobilization of the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC), and accompanied 37 demobilizations.
Among other tasks, the MAPP/OAS also accompanied family members and institutions in processes of the exhumation of mass graves of victims of the armed conflict; accompanied the implementation and monitored the Law of Justice and Peace; monitored during more than 400 visits the conditions of incarceration of members of the AUC, FARC-EP and ELN; and contributed to the design, implementation and monitoring of the Law of Victims and the Restitution of Lands.
In 2015 the MAPP/OAS carried out 1,400 visits to lands, including 330 visits to municipalities.
In its 12 years of existence, the MAPP/OAS accompanied:
More than 80,000 victims participants in Justice and Peace.
More than 1,600 community leaders in access to integral reparation.
More than 1,000 judicial proceedings in Justice and Peace.
More than 700 depositions in the framework of Justice and Peace.
More than 500 days of assistance to victims in Justice and Peace processes.