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.
AMBASSADOR ROGER F. NORIEGA, U.S. PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO THE OAS REMARKS TO MEETING OF THE PERMANENT COUNCIL ON VENEZUELA
December 16, 2002 - Washington, DC
Venezuela is confronting a deteriorating economic situation, unrelenting, polarizing rhetoric, and planning on both sides for new mass marches in Caracas later this week. In recent weeks, we have witnessed the shooting of peaceful demonstrators, resulting in three dead and dozens wounded. We have also seen coordinated efforts to attack and intimidate the media. These developments make our Secretary General’s efforts more urgent than ever.
Above all, this resolution supports the Secretary General’s efforts, unequivocally and energetically.
We also urge the two sides – the government and the democratic opposition – to negotiate in good faith to reach a peaceful, democratic, constitutional and electoral solution.
This resolution strongly defends the free exercise of all the essential elements of democracy – many of which have come under fire in Venezuela in recent weeks. It calls on all sectors to respect the principles of our Inter-American Democratic Charter, and it expresses our determination to continue applying the Democratic Charter as appropriate.
My delegation contends that governments have a singular, inescapable role in applying the rule of law and guaranteeing the free exercise of fundamental freedoms. We urge the government of Venezuela to do so.
Of course, this resolution appropriately rejects a coup d’etat or any other unconstitutional interruption of the democratic order.
Mr. Chairman, this is a time for all Venezuelans to act to defuse tension and seek a constructive solution to the ongoing unrest and violence. For example, all of Venezuela’s civilian, democratic institutions – the National Assembly, the Supreme Court, the Attorney General, the Defender of the People, and the Executive – must act to overcome Venezuela’s current crisis.
Moreover, we ask that Venezuelans study other recent examples in the Western Hemisphere in which political crises have been resolved by leaders and their political opponents who have chosen to act peacefully and constructively.