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.
First Plenary Session of the Summit of the Americas Witnessed Historic Presence of Cuba
April 11, 2015
Photo: OEA
The first plenary meeting of the Seventh Summit of the Americas took place today in Panama City, Panama and included addresses from 14 Heads of State and Government, among them President Raúl Castro, the first speech by a Cuban President at the meeting that brings together the 35 independent nations of the Hemisphere.
Following the presentation of the host President of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela, and with Secretary General José Miguel Insulza of the Organization of American States (OAS) in attendance, the session featured presentations by the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos; the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa; the President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff; the President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto; the President of the United States, Barack Obama; the President of Cuba, Raúl Castro; the President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner; the President of Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina; the President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro; the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kalma Persad-Bissessar; the President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández; the President of Perú, Ollanta Humala; the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales; and the Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper.
In their addresses, the leaders celebrated the presence of Cuba in the meeting, and the rapprochement between the Cuban and U.S. governments; supported the negotiations for peace in Colombia; expressed their support for the people and government of Chile over the flooding in the north of the country, that prevented the President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, from attending the meeting in Panama.
In addition, they addressed, among other issues, the United States sanctions on Venezuela; combating poverty and inequality; improving education; the benefits of a common hemispheric position on climate change; the urgency of cooperating against organized crime and drug trafficking; and the defense of human rights and freedom of the press.
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