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 Secretary General Meets with the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development
December 11, 2013
Photo: OAS
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today met with the Advisor on Multilateral Affairs of the Ministry of Economy, Planning, and Development of the Dominican Republic and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development, América Bastidas Castañeda, with whom he analyzed the progress made and possibilities that have emerged in the debate on the Strategic Vision of the OAS, a subject on which the Agency expects to make a substantial contribution.
During the meeting, the two reviewed the main points of the debate on the future of the OAS, opened by Secretary General Insulza with his presentations to the Permanent Council in February of 2012 and April 2013. Specifically, they discussed options for the Organization to continue to promote integral cooperation, especially on issues of development. They also discussed the need to identify relevant and differential criteria to guide the work of the OAS, and analyzed how the Millennium Development Goals could play a key role in the definition of thematic priorities and in expanding cooperation between the Organization and the multilateral agencies of the Hemisphere.
The two authorities also agreed on the importance of systematizing cooperation efforts to make them more effective, to avoid duplication and to define the role of the Organization as a promoter of regional cooperation.
The Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development, one of the subsidiary organs of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI), that includes a Management Board and the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development. It’s purpose is to promote, coordinate, manage, and facilitate the planning and execution of programs, projects, and activities for development within the scope of the OAS Charter and, in particular, the framework of the Strategic Plan for Partnership for Integral Development of CIDI.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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