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.
OAS LAUNCHES ESSAY CONTEST TO ENGAGE YOUTH IN FIFTH SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS
December 5, 2008
The Summits of the Americas Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) recently launched the “Summit of the Americas Essay Contest”, within the framework of the Fifth Summit of the Americas that will be held in Trinidad and Tobago on April 17-19, 2009. The initiative, organized in coordination with the National Secretariat for the Fifth Summit of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, will provide youth with an opportunity to express their perspectives on major hemispheric concerns to be addressed in the context of the Fifth Summit.
The Essay Contest aims at encouraging undergraduate and graduate students of the OAS Member States to focus on the themes of the Draft Declaration of Commitment of Port of Spain which is currently being negotiated by OAS Member States: “Securing our Citizen's Future by Promoting Human Prosperity, Energy Security and Environmental Sustainability”. The final declaration will be adopted by leaders at the Fifth Summit of the Americas.
The Essay Contest is part of extensive efforts by the OAS to raise awareness of the Summits of the Americas’ Process among social actors and to encourage their participation in the formulation of ideas and recommendations about the central topics of the Fifth Summit. Other OAS initiatives in this area include the online forums taking place in the Summits Virtual Platform (www.summits-americas.org/vp.html), the series of regional and sub-regional fora with civil society (www.civil-society.oas.org), and the Young Americas Forum (www.ybiz.net), among others.
Essays are expected to analyze the principal areas engaged in the Summit theme: promoting human prosperity, environmental sustainability and energy security, and strengthening democratic governance and the Summits Process.
The authors of up to the 7 best essays will be awarded the opportunity to participate as observers in the Summit and have their prize-winning essays published on the Summits website and distributed to OAS Member States during the Summit. To assess eligibility and for additional information on the Essay Contest, students should review carefully the “Terms and conditions” available at the Summits of the Americas Information Network at www.summit-americas.org. The deadline for submission of essays in any of the four official languages of the OAS (English, Spanish, Portuguese or French) is January 4, 2009.
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