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.
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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.
Venezuela’s Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Jorge Valero, assumed the chairmanship of the Permanent Council today and talked about the need for deeper conceptual and institutional change within the hemispheric organization.
The OAS should focus “not just on the concerns of governments but should also reflect the interests of the peoples of the Americas in their quest for justice, equality and solidarity,” declared Valero, as he accepted the gavel to succeed Uruguay’s Ambassador María del Lujan Flores in the Permanent Council chair.
Pledging that over the next three months he would lead the Council “with a spirit of broad-mindedness, to foster the broadest possible debate,” Valero said the OAS should faithfully reflect progressive changes taking place across the hemisphere. He argued that it should therefore reorient its debate “toward a comprehensive, multidimensional approach to democracy.”
Meanwhile, the OAS Assistant Secretary General, Ambassador Albert R. Ramdin, underscored the importance of this chairmanship in the lead-up to the next General Assembly session, which will be held in Panama City in June. Over the next few weeks, he said, the Permanent Council will be seeking consensus on the resolutions and issues that will be up for consideration and decision by the member states’ foreign ministers. “We are convinced that Venezuela’s leadership will facilitate the adoption of a consensus document on the main theme of the General Assembly—Energy for Sustainable Development,” Ramdin said.
During the hand-over ceremony, Valero also touched on the General Assembly, saying that “integration and cooperation around energy—based on principles of solidarity, collaboration and reciprocity that promote fair, just and universal access to energy—could be used as a vehicle to combat poverty, deliver sustainable economic and social development to the peoples of the Americas, and build just and equitable societies.”
A number of member state delegates were also on hand for the ceremony, which was held at OAS headquarters in Washington.