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.
Combat Money Laundering
The DTOC Anti-money laundering program seeks to support Member States in the implementation of international standards for the prevention and combat of money laundering.
Currently the DTOC is implementing the following projects:
Strengthening the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (AML / CFT) system in Peru: This project aims to improve the technical capabilities of the officials in charge of the investigation, prosecution and prosecution of these crimes. It also seeks to support the Government of Peru in the implementation of its National Plan against money laundering and terrorist financing, derived from its National AML / CFT Strategy and its National ML / TF Risk Analysis.
Anti-Money Laundering Program for Suriname: The AML program in Suriname seeks to develop specific capacities in the agencies in charge of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of Money Laundering and to provide technical assistance for the preparation of its National Risk Assessment of Money laundering and terrorist financing, within the framework prior to the development of the mutual evaluation process of compliance with the FATF standards that the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) will initiate in 2020.
Anti-Money Laundering Program for Colombia:This project seeks to provide tools to specialized entities fighting organized crime and money laundering in Colombia to improve investigations, produce better financial intelligence, and properly identify, seize, forfeit, and manage illicit activities ... more information.
Training sessions for judges and prosecutors for the correct application of the Anti-money laundering legal frameworks.
Training sessions for the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), national police and prosecutors on forensic auditing, link analysis and creative accounting.
Technical assistance for the FIU for the implementation of strategic analysis methodologies in financial investigations.
Development of situational diagnoses of the systems for the recovery and administration of seized and forfeited assets.
Technical assistance to the AML / CFT system agencies for the collection, processing and analysis of relevant information for the development of risk matrices.
With technical assistance from the OAS/DTOC, Suriname's Central Bank (CBvS) assessed Money Laundering/ Terrorism Financing (ML/TF) threats and vulnerabilities within the banking sector. This summary focuses on the banking sector's effectiveness and compliance with ML/TF measures, whereas the extended version contains the details.
The Sectoral Risk Assessment (ESR) of the microfinance sector has as its fundamental objective to complement the National Risk Assessment of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing of Ecuador, and provide comprehensive knowledge of the vulnerabilities and threats of the sector under study, carried out through the analysis of the current situation in the country, considering as a starting point the level of formalization of the economy and fraudulent schemes, such as the illegal collection and placement of money.
The objective of this publication is to provide tools based on the different modalities used to carry out money laundering identified in the behavior patterns detected by the regulated entities, which will allow the reporting sectors to have strategic information to improve their control and monitoring mechanisms against criminal organizations.
Esta quinta edición se destaca por reflejar la constante evolución que se viene dando en el combate al lavado de activos desde el sistema judicial a partir de la primera edición de la obra, publicada en el 2003, primordialmente en lo que se refiere a los nuevos estándares que constituyen la lucha contra el lavado de activos en el ámbito internacional, así como los avances en relación al debate jurisprudencial que se refleja en varias sentencias que son citadas en la obra y que han sido de suma relevancia para la región.
Improve the technical capabilities of the officers in charge of the investigation, prosecution and prosecution of money laundering.
Support member states in the development and implementation of their National Plans against money laundering and terrorist financing.
Develop specific capacities in the key agencies of the countries Anti-money laundering system.
Assist Member States in the development of risk analysis methodologies for money laundering and terrorist financing in accordance with the standards of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
Promote the exchange of good practices and international cooperation for the recovery of assets of illicit origin.
Strengthen the agencies in charge of the administration of seized and forfeited assets.