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.
LUIGI R. EINAUDI, ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES EDITORIAL OF ELECTRONIC MAGAZINE "PINCELADAS"
June 5, 2003 - Washington, DC
My best greetings to all of you, members of the "Grupo de Arte", friends, and all those interested in Inter-American ideals.
These are not easy times either globally or regionally. Never before has the force available both to private citizens and governments been so great. Never before has the monopoly on force Max Weber proclaimed to be the characteristic of the modern state been more challenged by terrorist groups and non-state actors. Uncertainty over the international rules governing the use of force is almost as high as it was when the League of Nations dissolved.
We in the OAS have no coercive Charter authority like that in Chapter Seven of the UN Charter. In fact, the OAS has not even endorsed the use of force by others since 1965. Yet we are far from helpless. If anything the new international uncertainties give new weight to the primary political tasks of the OAS - acting as the “caja de resonancia” of the Americas, developing cooperation to strengthen democracy and ensure the peace.
As my staff and I have worked to serve the political bodies and struggled to develop effective answers to the conflict resolution needs of member states, particularly in Central America and Haiti, but also supporting the Secretary General in Venezuela, Bolivia and a myriad other questions, I had have two great reassurances. The first is the gradual advance of cooperative regional jurisprudence. This is evident in the conventions negotiated and ratifications deposited defining the rules for regional cooperation on everything from the fight against terrorism, drug trafficking, the illegal trade in small arms, and corruption to the rights of the disabled and of indigenous peoples.
The second inspiration is art. I have a beautiful large office, but the Oregon fir paneling was at some point stained dark. The overall effect would be hard to bear were it not for the light and energy emanating from the eight works of art and a sculpture of Bolivar by the outer door. Paintings by Cañas, Carreño, Pelaez, Tamayo. Varela and Velasquez on loan from the Museum vie with two paintings from my home, a vivid market scene in Haiti by Faustin (framed beautifully by our colleague Najera), and a representation by my daughter Maria (painted on a door hung horizontally over my conference table, where many a deposit of ratification ceremony has taken place) of a scene she entitled “When the world finally ends there will still be heroes.”
Men and women are uplifted by their culture. And no part of culture is more immediate and instinctive than the visual. When art is beautiful, it makes all else worthwhile.
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