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.
Ambassador Fernando de la Flor Arbulú, Peru’s new Permanent Representative, in presenting credentials at the Organization of American States (OAS) today, stressed the need for a more concerted move to make the Inter-American Democratic Charter a document that is binding on all the signatory states.
Delivering his accreditation letters to Secretary General José Miguel Insulza during a brief ceremony, Ambassador de la Flor said democracy is a challenge that the Democratic Charter addresses very well, and he argued that “the dream of democracy must become a reality for our countries.”
The Peruvian diplomat called for more in-depth debate on priorities issues such as security, human rights and democracy, while acknowledging the OAS’ important efforts on the major hemispheric agenda issues, an agenda he described as already “intense, wide-ranging and essentially changing.”
In welcoming Ambassador de la Flor to the OAS, Secretary General Insulza praised Peru’s important contribution to the hemispheric organization. Insulza touched on a broad range of initiatives currently engaging the Organization’s attention, and expressed confidence that the work will benefit from the presence of the new Peruvian envoy.
A lawyer who has served as Secretary General in the Office of the President of Peru, Ambassador de la Flor Arbulú has also served as Counsel to the President and as legal advisor to the Minister of the Interior. For his outstanding service he has been decorated by the government of Peru and by the governments of Ecuador and Poland as well.