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.
GELAVEX is currently constituted as one of the advisory parties of the OAS and has the role of Technical Secretariat trough the Department against Transnational Organized Crime (DTOC), in accordance with the provisions of Executive Order 16-01 Rev. 1 issued by the Secretary General of the OAS in July 2016, and that creates the DTOC.
GELAVEX is made up of two Sub-Working Groups: (1) Coordination between Financial Intelligence Units (FIU) and Criminal Investigation Organizations (OIC) and (2) International Cooperation and Confiscation.
The 54thGELAVEX Meeting will be held on May 23 and 24, 202 2 in Washington DC in hybrid format and will be chaired by the Government of Ecuador, through the Financial and Economic Analysis Unit (UAFE). During the event, the two working subgroups and the chair will discuss the following:
2022-2023:
Working Subgroup on Financial Intelligence Units and Criminal Investigation Agencies:
1 Study of typologies related to the illegal collection of money, such as: pyramid schemes; Ponzi schemes; extortion loans, using as a front line activities carried out by virtual asset service providers; among others.
2 Guide to techniques and methodologies used by member countries in the generation of strategic analysis for the strengthening of advanced analytical capacities and the use of new systems and technological solutions.
Working Subgroup on International Cooperation and Forfeiture:
1 Implementation status of laws on extinction of ownership in the region and other forms of pre-conviction forfeiture.
2 Guide to procedures and best practices in asset seizure processes, including virtual assets and their proper administration and return.
To report on the progress of the outputs in accordance with the approved Work Plan and the recommendations agreed at the 53rd GELAVEX Meeting, held in Washington, D.C., on November 16, 2021.
1 Study of typologies related to the illegal collection of money, such as: pyramid schemes; Ponzi schemes; extortion loans, using as a front line activities carried out by virtual asset service providers; among others.
2 Guide to techniques and methodologies used by member countries in the generation of strategic analysis for the strengthening of advanced analytical capacities and the use of new systems and technological solutions.
3 Implementation status of laws on extinction of ownership in the region and other forms of pre-conviction forfeiture.
4 Guide to procedures and best practices in asset seizure processes, including virtual assets and their proper administration and return.