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 Member Countries Study how to Increase Collaboration against Illicit Trafficking of Firearms
May 6, 2015
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The XVI Meeting of the Consultative Committee of the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials (CIFTA) took place today at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, DC with a call on member countries to join efforts on this area critical to citizen security.
The President pro-tempore of the Consultative Committee and Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the OAS, Marco Albuja, highlighted the importance of the CIFTA and called on States parties to “continue working to coordinate decisions that allow for assistance to all the state of the hemisphere with tools to achieve the highest levels of security” in compliance with the principles of the Convention.
The diplomat from Ecuador cited several reports of the United Nations and other international organizations that indicate that Latin America has seen “great advances on social and economic issues,” especially between 2002 and 2013. “Nevertheless, we continue to be the least secure region in the world,” said Ambassador Albuja, who added that the majority of the countries in the region have a homicide rate above ten for every 100,000 inhabitants – which is considered a pandemic by the World Health Organization – and that throughout the Americas the majority of homicides are committed with firearms.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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