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 Representatives of the Inter-American Association of Public Defenders
March 18, 2014
Photo: OAS
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today met with representatives of the Inter-American Association of Public Defenders (AIDEF), with whom he discussed the importance of promoting the creation, autonomy, and the independence of public defenders in various countries of the region.
Participating in the meeting were the Director of the National Office of the Public Defender of the Dominican Republic and General Coordinator of AIDEF, Laura Hernández; the Defender General of Argentina and Secretary General of AIDEF, Stella Martínez; the National Defender of Chile, Georgy Schbert; as well as Catalina Sadá, Head of International Relations at the Public Defenders’ Office of Chile.
At the meeting, Secretary General Insulza stressed the need to expand the access to justice that citizens in the Americas have, with particular emphasis on the provision of resources to increase opportunities to access the inter-American human rights system, a topic considered key to the work of Public Defenders’ Offices. Participants at the meeting agreed on the importance of strengthening cooperation between the OAS and the AIDEF and of working to improve the image of public defenders, as well as their relationship with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
AIDEF’s representatives presented to the OAS leader details on the creation of the Regional Guide for the Public Defense and the Integral Protection of Persons Deprived of Liberty, which aims to enhance, strengthen and extend existing good practices, as well as to improve the services provided by Public Defenders’ Offices in order to safeguard the rights of persons deprived of liberty.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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