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.
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today welcomed the new Permanent Representative of Mexico to the OAS, Ambassador Alejandro García Moreno Elizondo.
Ambassador García Moreno, who presented credentials to Secretary General José Miguel Insulza during a ceremony earlier today, reaffirmed his country’s commitment to continue working with the Organization to advance the issues of the Inter-American agenda, such as human rights, socioeconomic development and the strengthening of democracy.
“The OAS, as a permanent hemispheric forum, is the place where our nations can move forward and consolidate an institutional architecture, built on the pillars of the Charter of the Organization, the Inter-American Democratic Charter and the mandates from the General Assembly,” said the diplomat, in his first address to the Council.
The Mexican diplomat underscored the need to work together to combat threats to security in the continent such as organized crime, terrorism and natural disasters. “I am completely convinced that the success of the tasks set out in the Declaration on Security in the Americas depends upon our capacity to carry out efforts and agree on actions that will overcome these challenges that have no borders,” said the Ambassador.
The Ambassador of Trinidad and Tobago, Marina Valere, who chaired today’s Permanent Council session, welcomed the new envoy “to the family of the Americas,” adding that she was certain that García Moreno would continue the “excellent work” of his predecessor, particularly his efforts on the Special Committee on Organized Crime.