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.
OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin will open the Seventh Meeting of Negotiations in the Quest for Points of Consensus of the Working Group to Prepare the Draft American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, together with Brazil’s Minister of Justice, Márcio Thomaz Bastos, and Ambassador Antônio Patriota, Assistant Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
The Chair of the Working Group, Ambassador Juan León, Alternate Representative of Guatemala to the OAS and member of the Maya K’iche indigenous community, said he expected that the Brasilia meeting would complete the overall review of the Working Group Chair’s consolidated text, issued in June 2003, and would begin the final cycle of cleaning up bracketed or footnoted texts that have remained pending. León said this seventh meeting would address such complex topics such as autonomy and self-governance, as well as lands and territories.
In a resolution adopted on February 10, the Permanent Council accepted the Brazilian government’s offer, issued through its representative to the OAS, Ambassador Osmar Chohfi, to host the March meeting. This is the Working Group’s second meeting away from the Organization’s Washington, D.C., headquarters. The first was held last October in Antigua Guatemala.
The Brasilia meeting will be held in keeping with the resolution adopted in June 2005 by the OAS General Assembly in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in which the foreign ministers of the Americas asked the Permanent Council to give increased emphasis to the holding of negotiation meetings, with a view to the prompt adoption of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
A Caucus of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas will also be held in Brasilia, from March 18 to 20.