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 observed a minute of silence, during a special meeting, in tribute to the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, who passed away on Tuesday, March 5th.
In the absence of the OAS Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza, who traveled to Caracas to attend the funeral of President Chávez tomorrow, his Chief of Staff, Hugo de Zela, expressed on his behalf to the delegation of Venezuela “our deepest sorrow for the painful moments you all are going through.” The minute was called for by the Vice-Chair of the Council and Permanent Representative of Barbados, John E. Beale, acting as Chair in the absence of the Chair and Permanent Representative of Nicaragua, Denis Moncada.
Carmen Velásquez, the Alternate Representative of Venezuela to the OAS said, “I know if President Chávez were here, he would say that we must keep working. Even though he is not dead for us, as is true for many in the Latin American and Caribbean countries, because he simply left to visit, in spirit, mind and soul, each and every one of the corners of this hemisphere, to look at and bring strength to all those people who were invisible and that need to remain visible. I know he asked us not to remember him with tears, but it is impossible for tears not to spring to our eyes, because there will definitely be a hemisphere before Chávez and another after Chávez.”
The tribute was held during a special meeting of the OAS Permanent Council to receive civil society representatives within the process of the strengthening of the Inter-American System of Human Rights, which will conclude on March 22nd with an Extraordinary General Assembly at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.