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.
COMMISSION OF INQUIRY REPORTS ON VIOLENCE IN HAITI
July 1, 2002
The report of the three-man independent Commission of Inquiry into the December 17, 2001 Events in Haiti has been submitted to the Organization of American States (OAS), with a 22-point package of recommendations, in keeping with an OAS Permanent Council resolution, CP/RES. 806 of 15 January, 2002.
Summarizing their findings after extensive hearings and interviews in Haiti, the Commissioners’ 87-page report contains a graphic account of facts surrounding the attack on the National Palace and the violence against opposition leaders that followed. It recommends that “All persons found to be implicated in the violence of December 17, 2001, and subsequent days be prosecuted without delay.”
Urging a speedy conclusion of cases stemming from the December 2001 incidents, currently the subject of another OAS report to the government of Haiti, the Commissioners urge that "prompt and adequate payment of reparations be made to all organizations and individuals who suffered damage and/or injury."
Medium and long-term recommendations relate to security and reform of the judiciary, police, human rights and media, among measures that would generate an atmosphere "conducive to the restoration of a relationship of confidence in the country." The report recommends that the donor community recommence its grant and loan programs, side by side with the implementation of the political agreements reached in Haiti, work already begun by the OAS Special Mission in Haiti.
Referring indirectly to the virtually complete Initial Accord on elections, the independent Commission also calls on Haiti's ruling party and the opposition to "put aside attitudes of mutual disrespect and engage in confidence-building with the support of third parties to oversee the implementation of the agreements that may be reached for the benefit of their country."
The commission's members, Roberto Flores-Bermúdez, former Honduran Foreign Minister; Alonso Gómez-Robledo, an International Law Professor from Mexico; and Nicholas Liverpool, a Dominican jurist and a Judge of Appeal in the Courts of The Bahamas, Belize, Grenada and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), submitted their report to Haitian President Jean-Bertand Aristide and OAS Secretary General César Gaviria.
The Secretary General today submitted the report to the Chairman of the Permanent Council for circulation to member states and permanent as an informational document.