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 Participates in Meeting on Public Policy in Chile at Harvard University
March 29, 2015
Photo: OAS
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, delivered the closing speech at a two day event at Harvard University organized by the Center for Latin American Studies, on Public Policy in Chile, to an audience of Chilean students majoring in public administration at the prestigious institution of higher learning.
The leader of the hemispheric Organization said that "politics, especially democratic politics is not only a matter of values or principles; it also requires tangible results for citizens." Speaking of his own long experience, he added that "in my life I have seen democracies built and destroyed and so I've learned to appreciate the importance of political and ideological pluralism, dialogue, tolerance and civic friendship."
Secretary General Insulza also highlighted the problems caused by inequality in Latin America, "where poverty and extreme poverty are still excessive and inequality and discrimination frustrate many millions of people who, having already escaped poverty, remain in an alarming situation of vulnerability and lack of opportunities." Social exclusion, he stressed, "also takes the form of gender or minority discrimination. Indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants suffer greater deprivation than the rest of the population; and too many single-parent households headed by women or disabled or elderly are mired in poverty."
The meeting was opened by the Ambassador of Chile to the White House, Juan Gabriel Valdes.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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