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.
Message from OAS Secretary General on World Press Freedom Day
May 3, 2018
On World Press Freedom Day, we salute all who work to expand and protect this freedom from the different attacks to which it is subjected on a daily basis.
Violence and stigmatization against journalists and communicators has been increasing in our hemisphere and only a few countries remain as the guarantors of press freedom in all the areas measured by the global indexes regarding this fundamental attribute of democracy. This is worrying.
As independent journalism is an existential condition of democracy, it is no surprise that authoritarian regimes try to suppress it.
It is no coincidence that in Cuba – a country governed by the same party for 59 years – there is no authorized independent press. And in Venezuela, where there is a regime that has consolidated itself as a new dictatorship, press freedom suffers from unacceptable conditions.
But the problems of freedom of expression also extend in varying degrees to other areas of the territories of the Americas, where organized crime and drug trafficking threaten the lives of journalists every day.
In its 2017 report, the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights stated that it had received 900 complaints of incidents involving violence, Illegitimate restrictions or threats to the exercise of the right to freedom of expression. This is unacceptable.
On this day we redouble our efforts to ensure a pluralistic media system in which the state is the defender and guarantor of press freedom.
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